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Cognitive load is what matters

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1457 points nromiun | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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dennisy ◴[30 Aug 25 18:32 UTC] No.45076953[source]▶
Whilst I agree with lots of ideas in this piece, I fell out of love with it when clicking into the discussion on what should be done instead of using a layered architecture.

The author makes valid points but they are vacuous and do not provide concrete alternatives.

Many engineering articles disappoint me in this way, I get hyped by all the “don’t dos”, but the “do dos” never come.

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1. zakirullin ◴[30 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.45078184[source]▶
Software engineering is a relatively immature field. Nobody knows how to cook it in a proper way. What we know for sure is how to fail (point of the article). There was an analogy about building bridges and writing software. Building a bridge is boring, it's a very mature engineering field, and it's clearly known how to do it the best way possible. Software development is far from it. Unknown unknowns, ever changing requirements, different mental models in people's brains...