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jjice on Oct 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software e...

I liked 8 a lot

> Every system eventually sucks, get over it

I'm a fresh recent grad developer, and this is good to know to calm me down from over architecting. I'll do my damnedest, but it's to know it's not awful if things get a bit messy eventually.

dgb23 on Oct 8, 2021 [–]

A better way to phrase this is that there is always room for improvement but we don't have infinite time. Deciding what to improve when is a skill.

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