[nemo846]

> generalized and future proof

Reminds me of a blog post I read,

https://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/the-perils-of-future-co...

At what point does it become over-engineering?

[emsy]

I think the article captures the problem even better than a similar one that was recently on the frontpage of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850836

I can't remember a situation where undergeneralized code came back to bite me. I have however seen (and admittedly written some) prematurely generalized code that became messy legacy code.

[AlexCoventry]

You often can't tell up-front. If you never get back more than what you put into an abstraction, it was probably over-engineered.