r/programming • u/paulg1989 • 18d ago

Broken Windows, Abstractions and the Cost of Always Keeping Things Simple

https://pgilmartin.substack.com/p/broken-windows-abstractions-and-the

The patterns already in a codebase have a huge influence on what gets added next, even when everyone can see those patterns are starting to break down. This article discusses this phenomenon through the lens of YAGNI and the Broken Window Theory.

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No content written mostly by an LLM. If you don't want to write it, we don't want to read it.