My experience has been that software is where this is the strongest. The term YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it) is very much a precursor to this mindset, but I ha

My experience has been that software is where this is the strongest. The term YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it) is very much a precursor to this mindset, but I have found that you can go further by just trying to write software that's easy to change and update. However you should not do that by preemptive interface-design, etc, you should just focus on what actually makes it easier to swap things out.