I predicted the future all the time. The problem was I worked in a team, so there were too many factors at play. When I was wrong, I could blame it on others wh

I predicted the future all the time. The problem was I worked in a team, so there were too many factors at play. When I was wrong, I could blame it on others who didn't follow my structures to a T. Then I was given the chance to work on a project on my own from scratch. It was the most beautiful architecture I ever implemented. 30 deadline later, and the stress of the real world, every single new feature was so hard to add because they couldn't all be abstracted to just in case we used it more than once. Now I had no one to blame. Today, I hard code things and don't feel bad about it because I know it doesn't matter until it matters. I can only imagine all the time I would have saved if I had this mentality in the beginning.