I’m stupid too. It’s hard to make sense of complexity when it’s senseless and doesn’t directly address a problem, instead being an inner abstraction. Every day

I’m stupid too. It’s hard to make sense of complexity when it’s senseless and doesn’t directly address a problem, instead being an inner abstraction. Every day there’s more things to learn in web development, and the scope of most engineering jobs is too large for most people to perform at a peak without burning out. I guess much more stupid is someone who doesn’t realize this and try to do everything and end up doing it badly. Of course you can spin up whatever layer in your stack, but maintaining and debugging it at large is a whole other problem. Usually people who prefer simplicity are the ones wise enough to see the big picture, software in its entire lifecycle. Being stupid has allowed me to deliver fast and secure software that I can explain to the next maintainer in a very short time, not to mention figuring out a problem just by its context in my head. There’s a whole set of principles that makes being a stupid programmer viable, such as Pareto and YAGNI, so much so that often people confuse you with a bright, productive programmer. It came to the point that I like being stupid, because by focusing on the bare minimum, software can be shipped really fast and with great quality overall.