I think a lot of engineers intellectually agree with this idea, but emotionally still default to building the “proper” system.
There’s a strange pressure in tech to reach for architecture, frameworks, and infrastructure even when the problem might only need something scrappy. Sometimes the ugly solution survives longer simply because it’s closer to the actual problem.
There’s a strange pressure in tech to reach for architecture, frameworks, and infrastructure even when the problem might only need something scrappy. Sometimes the ugly solution survives longer simply because it’s closer to the actual problem.