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by scottious 1620 days ago
> A lot of senior experienced people will talk about all the “shoulds” your code should be like. They are usually describing some far distance promised land that they have never visited either.

Oh how I can relate do this. I've seen so much guilt and inaction from developers who are paralyzed by "should". They so badly don't want to be a "bad engineer" that they'll over-engineer just about everything and end up causing a lot of problems.