Stop Predicting the Future of Your Code

Dan Goslen
Nov 1 · 5 min read
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If I could give any advice to any software engineer — especially ones working on a brand-new project — it would be this: just write the simplest code to get it working.

That’s it.

Why is that the most important piece of advice I would give? Because all developers know the pain of old crufty code. Of abstractions that are wrong. of classes so complex that everyone is…

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Dan Goslen

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Software Engineer @Bandwidth. Agile advocate. Coffee consumer. Outdoor enthusiast. Fan of animated movies. Follower of Jesus. I love reading and writing code.

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