Nick Lockwood on Nostr: God, overengineering is absolutely endemic in our industry. I see it everywhere. ...
God, overengineering is absolutely endemic in our industry. I see it everywhere. Hundreds of lines of code where a dozen would do, overwhelming any performance gains we make from better hardware or tooling. All done in the name of cargo cult "best practices" and supposed maintainability or testability benefits that are never actually validated.
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