As I was reading the post, I kept thinking that the nihilist sounds like they're following the recommendations set in "The Pragmatic Programmer."
If you make decisions reversible or abstract away the interface from the implementation, you may be doing it for nihilistic reasons, but still a decent idea.
If you make decisions reversible or abstract away the interface from the implementation, you may be doing it for nihilistic reasons, but still a decent idea.
Also, "good enough" is underrated.