> I get inconvenienced by other people's code all the time, but it's so easy to assume when you're looking at the bug "they should have known this was going to

> I get inconvenienced by other people's code all the time, but it's so easy to assume when you're looking at the bug "they should have known this was going to happen / tested for this" when you started your investigation knowing the trigger for the bug. When I was a junior dev I had a tendency to want to rewrite everything. I remember thinking that most the code I was working on at the time was overly complicated and could be done with far fewer lines of code. Recently I realised I might now be the guy that now overengineers and writes overly complicated code. I think this is common trend for devs too, as you mature you get really good at anticipating future problems so tend to write code that doesn't just meet the current requirements, but can scale into likely future requirements. I feel like I've kind of gone full circle and now and I'm starting to question if there is a middle ground between the simplicity of writing simple code to solve a very specific problem and the extra time required in writing code that scales. The reason I say this is because I realised devs working on my code often don't fully understand the reasoning behind what I've written anyway and I and the devs working on my code often don't have the time to read / produce documentation explaining the code in detail. I also can't guarantee I'm always available to review PRs and ensure the code quality is maintained, so perhaps most of the time it's wasted effort. Also often you just don't know what kind of constraints devs are working under. I know for a few projects with tight time constraints I've been asked to do the bare minimum to patch certain bugs or add some functionality so we can ship ASAP. I'll normally push back on this if I feel it's a bad idea, but code quality isn't always the most important consideration. I realise I'm much more open minded when reading code now because after 15 years as a dev I'm still not sure I always do things right myself.