[erichurkman]

> If I can think of it, then I hope it already exists and I can just reuse it.

There is also a cognitive load of 'using it' for simple algos and packages, like left-pad. Some end up the de facto standard of a community (Python's `requests` package), but other communities fracture (Node's SuperAgent, Axios, got, Request, reqwest, ...).

I like to think of code I write today as automatically being 'obsolete' 12 months from now. I might not replace it +12 mo, but if I _were_ to replace it, what comments, patterns, and hints might I leave my future-self to make that easier? Simpler code is easier to test and replace. Less magic code is easier to swap out with other languages. Verbose code is easier for my new team of +N engineers to digest, even if it takes twice as long to read.