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Fully agree. I think this is something that takes some time/experience to appreciate though. Junior engineers will spend countless hours writing pages of code that align with the “design patterns” or “best practices” of the day when there’s a simpler implementation of the code they’re writing. (I’m not saying this condescendingly—I was once a junior engineer who did that too!)



It’s impossible to know what “good” looks like when you’re new and haven’t seen a few codebases of varying quality and made some terrible mistakes




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