>need to use judgement I'd put this as the only real Golden Rule of software development. There is so much blind cargo culting around best practices / code / a

>need to use judgement I'd put this as the only real Golden Rule of software development. There is so much blind cargo culting around best practices / code / architecture in our industry that, with some engineers, human judgement seems to have been replaced with someone else's paint-by-numbers rules. Sometimes, man, it just makes sense to take a step back, look at what you're actually building, and ask what makes sense _for this case_. Sometimes the stupid thing is the best option. Sometimes it's not. Judgement should trump all else.