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A colleague of mine preaches this gospel. But we never actually delete anything. So now our life is lived on a shanty-town of under-engineered throwaway codebas
by twic 2y ago
A colleague of mine preaches this gospel. But we never actually delete anything. So now our life is lived on a shanty-town of under-engineered throwaway codebases.
I'm not saying that our life would be better if we gold-plated anything; it would probably just suck differently. But so far, IME, design for deletion hasn't really delivered.
- Terr_ 2y agoI prefer to think of it less as "do the short-term minimum" and more like a kind of humility when it comes to wiring things up.