> This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the ge

> This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable. The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. - Brooks, Mythical Man Month It is always interesting to see v2. I have witnessed cases where they are catastrophic due to feature overload but also cases where they are phenomenal because they are streamlined and lean. I also wonder, with all the tooling available now at least in the space of web apps, if this quote notion of danger applies as much to v1s as I have seen v1s remarkably bloated these days. I often have to purposefully seek out tools that do less.