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Also, I agree with you about over-complicating with all those patterns. But before I am able to dismiss a solution, I have to understand it. Trying to keep it simple is hard

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@lexx, i think most of the things you put in your answer were very reasonable and non-controversial and probably what most good senior-ish engineers do. I think the parent comment is slightly in his "local minima" and he's generalizing his experience to everyone else

>"Trying to persuade people to avoid technical debt at all costs" - put in a linter

This for example does not make sense to me. This would mean all tech debt is just static analysis. There is no linter for figuring out the correct abstraction and using them correctly. Eg. no linter yet will tell you "hey you should have used a state machine here!"

You need a width range of experience before you can develop "better" taste in what's good and bad in different scenarios. Some of it can be gained from years of experience, and some from exposure to books/code.

Definitely nothing against what Lexx said. I did want to call out that most architects over-complicate in my experience. What we do just isn't as profound as people make it out to be unless you are genuinely working on some latest ML for billions of revenue or stabilizing SpaceX's landing thrusters, sequencing DNA, etc.

Having a broad and deep understanding of a range of design patterns in an otherwise banal enterprise environment is critical when the existing technologies you work with are numerous, decades old and have built up like layers of sedimentary rock.

>in my experience

Friend, you're making it clear that you don't have much.

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