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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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tines ◴[05 Feb 25 14:00 UTC] No.42948564[source]▶
How does

> There is no pride in managing or understanding complexity

interact with

> If I think something is easy, that's a sure sign I don't understand it.

? Is it implying that you must understand the irreducible complexity, but mustn't take pride in that understanding? Or is "difficult" the opposite of "easy" here, rather than "complex?"

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1. ryathal ◴[05 Feb 25 16:09 UTC] No.42950540[source]▶
It's saying you don't need to be proud of your app that has multiple layers of abstractions to be immune to every possible change. There are hard problems, but the most complex solution is rarely good or best.
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2. arduinomancer ◴[05 Feb 25 16:22 UTC] No.42950778[source]▶
I think when you first start out as a programmer you’re impressed by complexity and complex solutions

But once you’re more experienced you realize complexity is arbitrary and anyone can make things more complex

3. tines ◴[05 Feb 25 16:29 UTC] No.42950894[source]▶
I'd argue that's a poor way to say that, because "managing" complexity tends to mean "taming" or dealing with complexity in a good way.