I think the biggest one I got wrong was in a previous job, I spent a lot of time writing abstractions and helper functions to reduce the amount of boilerplate I

I think the biggest one I got wrong was in a previous job, I spent a lot of time writing abstractions and helper functions to reduce the amount of boilerplate I had to write in the name of saving time overall. In hindsight, I should've just bought Copilot or some other AI autocomplete tool to both save me time as desired and make the code easier to follow. Disclaimer: motivated by this, I'm now building Codeium (https://www.codeium.com https://www.codeium.com), which is a free alternative to Copilot so that no one needs to consider cost as a reason for not using this tech.