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Re:Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for... by throwaway9191a on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:05AM (#23627379)
This is a huge problem at AWS.

IMHO the largest contributor to over engineering in this company is people suggesting flaws in other's designs simply to have something to contribute during a meeting. I can't remember anyone, ever, telling me to remove something from a design doc (3.5 years).

I have added unnecessary complexity to my own designs as a response to comments. Not customer driven, not data driven, but somebody at a meeting got focused on something and it ended up getting added to the design.

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Re:Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for... by sidlls on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:24AM (#23627544)
>I have added unnecessary complexity to my own designs as a response to comments. Not customer driven, not data driven, but somebody at a meeting got focused on something and it ended up getting added to the design.

I've had unnecessary complexity introduced to my code during code reviews as a response to comments, too. Most often it's to make things "more testable" so as to reach an arbitrary code coverage target.

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