> Does that mean all programmers should dumb their code down so even beginners with no domain expertise can understand it at a glance? Should we strive to satis

> Does that mean all programmers should dumb their code down so even beginners with no domain expertise can understand it at a glance? Should we strive to satisfy the Shakespeare for Dummies demographic? Having been on call for other people's code I can tell you that the idiom "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live" is a very good idea and you should stick to it. If I get woken up at 2am due to an outage you caused and open your file to find you've written War and Peace code instead of The Hungry Caterpillar code I will be very very very upset with you.