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by suzzer99 1286 days ago
A huge part of my job as a developer is organizing the business person’s thoughts for them, and filling in the non-happy-path 80% of the app that they don’t care about, but their users do.

And doing all that in a coherent way that’s ruthless about maintaining simplicity for as long as possible, including pushing back on business ideas that add marginal benefit but mushroom the complexity of the app.