YAGNI isn't a piece of cake either. I remember when I first got a job as a junior I used to spend endless nights trying to template stuff in C++. I feared it mi

YAGNI isn't a piece of cake either. I remember when I first got a job as a junior I used to spend endless nights trying to template stuff in C++. I feared it might not work for the general case. As it turned out several months later in practice: 1. I didn't knew what the general case was so it wasn't supporting that. 2. Code was so fucking complicated trying to suit the general case. I had to throw it out. I had to write new code that actually solved new cases. 3. I wasted about a week on what could probably be done in 30 minutes at that time. 4. There were third-party libraries (Boost) that were written by people who actually dealt with the general case but I wasn't allowed to use them since they "bloated code". Those libraries would've saved me time when I wrote the original damn thing, when I had to introduce new cases (probably), and when I had to debug that crappy code of mine. Number three has also caused me to learn what kind of stuff can bring someone's productivity up by orders of magnitude. I also learned that I should have freedom on what libraries I have to use because micromanagement is dumb. Conclusion: micromanagement sucks; YAGNI rocks.