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> I have also found that stressing simplicity as a key performance metric for engineers is a useful tool.

Some of the smartest engineers I've ever worked with produce code that is so well crafted it feels simple when you look at it, but it's actually extremely clever.

I think the conversation about "clever", "smart", "volatile" programmers tends to align the axis of _code_ complexity with cleverness, but often the cleverness is in finding the perfect simple solution.