A practical guide to thinking about software development, translated from "The Grug Brained Developer" by Claude
This is a collection of thoughts on software development gathered through years of practical experience. While there are many brilliant developers out there who might disagree with these perspectives, these insights come from years of hands-on programming and learning from mistakes.
Complexity is the greatest threat to software development. It cannot be overstated how dangerous complexity is. Unlike obvious problems, complexity sneaks into codebases through well-meaning but ultimately harmful decisions made by developers and project managers who don't recognize or fear its impact.
A codebase can be perfectly understandable one day, and the next day become impossible to work with because complexity has crept in. You can't directly see comp