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At the centre Merging the tempting extra feature means adopting a pile of code that neither its author nor the maintainer really understands. Holds PSPeter Steinberger Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Most of the code the world runs on is maintained by hobbyists with an hour or two a month, so any proposal that needs more than that will simply be ignored. Holds TDThomas Depierre
• Similar wording You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it. Holds CMCharity Majors
• Similar wording Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording A design proposal should describe the feature as though it already existed — once as a tutorial and once as reference documentation. Holds ARAlice Ryhl
• Similar wording The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together. Holds CMCasey Muratori
• Similar wording Loops belong on codebase quality, not on shipping the features users want; we read all of the code, because program design is what decides whether a codebase stays changeable. Holds DHDex Horthy
• Similar wording With agents a new feature is one prompt away, which means the whole cost of a feature has moved to what happens after you ship it. Holds PSPeter Steinberger
• Similar wording The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications. No longer holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson