[krzrak]

> But you have to ship in 4 weeks, so why not just get something working first?

Of course, this sometimes happens, but it shouldn't be encouraged. This way you are creating technical debt, which will be very expensive to pay off.

[seanmcdirmid]

I actually work on problems that haven't been solved previously (or why not just get a dev to do it rather than a researcher). I get offended when some dev who writes web apps connecting to databases all the time says "all code should be simple." They really don't have a clue.

[seanmcdirmid]

At what point is simple simple enough? You can simplify for a long time just by working at the same problem for a few years. But wow...not everything is a basic crud app.

[krzrak]

> At what point is simple simple enough?

It's hard to explain. You know it by experience.