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by bpicolo 1040 days ago
Agreed. These feel backwards.

When I think "Under engineer", I think "keep it simple, because you can't predict the future". Simplicity is a great enabler of flexibility and tends to go hand in hand with scalability.

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It's usually comparatively easy to make something that's too simple a bit more complex.

It's often much harder to make something that's too complex more simple.