[welliman]

I really like Sandi Metz as a speaker, and am pretty sure she has thought about these problems much deeper than I have. However, I often find myself wondering if most of the problems she is trying to solve would go away if programmers spent more time thinking about their code.

The case filled code that she is describing seems to be a result of the programmers not fully grasping the purpose of the code, and being unable to tell if the current abstraction is fitting. I understand that deadlines and the sunk cost fallacy play a factor, but, at least for me, finding the right abstractions / architecture is most satisfying part of coding! Shouldn’t that be what these programmers are focusing on in the first place?