A wise engineer who I worked closely with told me "the job of the engineer is to manage complexity. Engineers don't like complexity". There are those hard-lear

A wise engineer who I worked closely with told me "the job of the engineer is to manage complexity. Engineers don't like complexity". There are those hard-learned sutras that just make life so much easier down the line. Down the line always comes (unless you are playing career musical chairs and are willing to gamble that you won't be around to have to deal with the code mess when there's a sev2-, but as they say.. karma's a b..." Avoid premature optimization TDD Avoid complexity Readable code Documented code Probably helps avoid most problems.