I've been taking the approach of writing code at the highest level of trickery/abstraction that is well-supported by my automated refactoring, debugging, and st

I've been taking the approach of writing code at the highest level of trickery/abstraction that is well-supported by my automated refactoring, debugging, and static analysis tools. This usually means keeping code quite simple. I can then play around with the code much easier if I need to make any changes, and I don't have to focus on the details much because they are quite explicit. If something is so detailed that it gets too long to be quickly readable I extract it into a separate properly-named function. I'm definitely drawn to using all the tricks of a language and I feel like it would be a great way to show off how smart I am, but I'm not sure its worth it for sacrificing comprehension and ease of adding stuff in later. Maybe if everyone that will ever work or use that code is top-notch, that would be a dream.