[kstrauser]

I think I write much less code now to solve a given problem, largely due to a few decades of YAGNI experience. Gee, I could build this infinitely flexible inner system to solve this whole class of problems, or I could just write some code to concretely solve today’s problem, and keep it loosely coupled enough that we can replace it wholesale later if we need to.

That, plus a healthy dose of “good enough”, along with a whole lot of “I’ve written this 5 times already” lets me get easily maintainable stuff out the door more quickly than when I started.

If I were hiring, I’d vastly prefer current me to younger me.