> We don't know the future Too often when I see this claim it’s used to defend the opposite idea - that we should assume that the future will continue to look

> We don't know the future Too often when I see this claim it’s used to defend the opposite idea - that we should assume that the future will continue to look like today. A good engineer should be thinking about robustness and flexibility from day one. Many choices we make early on close off options in the future or make them achievable only at great cost and at the expense of other business goals. By this I do not mean “future proofing” or trying to account for all possibilities or to solve for specific scenarios that do not yet exist - those too are traits of an inexperienced engineer.