Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwaway894345 1651 days ago
This is a mischaracterization. We write simple code not for simple people, but because grokking gratuitously abstract code isn't a good use of anyone's cognitive resources--no matter how smart you are, you will have more mental capacity to put toward real problems if you're working in a simple codebase rather than an unnecessarily abstract codebase.