This hits so close home, I need to know if the author is a former colleague :) I agree especially with two points: no one asks “why” enough, and the best softw

This hits so close home, I need to know if the author is a former colleague :) I agree especially with two points: no one asks “why” enough, and the best software is the one that does not need to be written. Both often conflate as “we wrote it because we didn’t know we shouldn’t have”. I have lost count of how many times we asked “why”, just to find out that some engineer was having such a good time writing software that she ended up creating and integrating a shittier version of a widely known tool.