> It's the experienced developers that try to gold plate to avoid the issues that they had in the last project
Literally learning from the past and applying it to the present is “gold plating”?
I’m stunned.
Literally learning from the past and applying it to the present is “gold plating”?
I’m stunned.
I think the gold plating they're referring to is a form of over-correcting. The learning itself is good, and correcting prior issues is good. But over-correcting and over-learning can be problematic and can lead to gold plating.
I don't think there's any easy indication of the line between the right-amount of correction and over-correction, but I don't think it's unreasonable to state that one can over-correct based on prior experiences.