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2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us

@thomasfuchs.at yep, and somewhere along the way also "Code should document itself"

That one got co-opted by documentation laziness. Long function and variable names aren't sufficient to describe business logic.🫤

Comments is code shoulh always be present when 'why' is needed