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by AndyPatterson 1517 days ago
Build it the stupid way first is short sighted imo but this might just be an exaggerated way of saying premature optimisation is wasteful.

Just putting it out there, but I think Knuth’s aphorism is being used and abused to the point that some folk believe system qualities are second to functional requirements when it’s not the case.