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Re:Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for... by InvOfSmallC on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:26AM (#23626287)
Personally this is not my experience. Plenty of seniors spitballing not useful solutions, premature optimization of sort etc...

The mid-career is perfectly fine, give you are also good at refactoring if needed.

Also, another thing that I'm not seeing stressed enough on this topic is: measure.

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Re:Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for... by _t0du on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:56AM (#23629455)
One thing I've found throughout my career is having Senior in your title is sometimes totally unrelated to your ability to write code or design solutions.
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