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A comment on Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?. Parent comment
If you learn anything by having super complex software that tried to anticipate future needs is that you rarely get it right.
Write the code for the problem you have today. Pay attention that, by the choices you make, you don’t walk yourself into a corner.
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If you learn anything by having super complex software that tried to anticipate future needs is that you rarely get it right.
Write the code for the problem you have today. Pay attention that, by the choices you make, you don’t walk yourself into a corner.