All advice is wrong some of the time, because everything is contextual. Your job is not to write code -- code is the easy part. It's to hold enough context in y

All advice is wrong some of the time, because everything is contextual. Your job is not to write code -- code is the easy part. It's to hold enough context in your mind to solve the problem given to you and to balance all of the competing constraints, and then to encode that solution.