> By that point it becomes clear that you should have employed a dozen geniuses to do it in a few thousand lines of the weird nerdy tool. You'd have ended up wi

> By that point it becomes clear that you should have employed a dozen geniuses to do it in a few thousand lines of the weird nerdy tool. You'd have ended up with something smaller... Probably. > ... and simpler... Maybe not. Some geniuses produce simple; some produce insane complexity. > ... and easier to maintain Almost certainly not, unless you have another genius.