I went back through a draft and caught one line. “Simple code is easier to build.”
It’s wrong.
Simple code is easier to fix. Easier to read. Easier to maintain. Getting to simple is the hard part.
My first draft of this post had six stories. I kept one.
You add things, then you cut. You rewrite. You ask “is this necessary?” enough times to strip it down.
That takes iterations.
People think simple is easy because the result is easy to understand. Behind it are dozens of drafts and hundreds of cuts.
The simpler it looks, the more work it took.
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Where are you adding when you could be cutting?
