I've been a developer for 30 years, and I'll admit that in my early days, I was arrogant and thought I was smarter than everyone else. I'd describe myself back

I've been a developer for 30 years, and I'll admit that in my early days, I was arrogant and thought I was smarter than everyone else. I'd describe myself back then as one of those "big-brains" loving all the complexity demons. 10 years later, and I've shifted more towards being a "Grug brain" developer. Now, I focus on the simplest solution that could possibly work, knowing that it's probably not perfect. But that's okay, because it gets me closer to what is correct, allowing for iteration. The best thing you can do as a developer is to delete code! Right now, we have a requirement that we've been living with for two years that suddenly isn't a requirement anymore. I can't tell you how excited I am to go through and rip out a whole bunch of code, because it makes everything simpler.