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by Kamq 1142 days ago
> Making even the most simple changes or basic features would often break something else in unexpected ways.

As I get older I find myself valuing locality of behavior over most other concerns.

I can deal with some pretty spaghetti-ish code that's bad along many traditional metrics as long as I know what my changes are going to impact.

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> As I get older I find myself valuing locality of behavior over most other concerns.

I absolutely agree, that's a big one for me as well and when I'm designing new features it's always a high priority.