🔗 Why I build software like I’m going to maintain it for 10 years

The older I get as a software engineer, the less impressed I am by clever code.

A few years ago, I loved writing code that made me feel smart. Dense abstractions. Fancy design patterns. Generic types nested inside more generic types. APIs that looked elegant — at least until I came back six months later and couldn’t remember what I was thinking.

These days, my philosophy is much simpler.

I build software like I’m going to maintain it for the next ten years.