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Programming would be trivial if things were so simple.

The reality is, that "either it creates revenue by being what users want", or it enables creating more of that later on, or prevents the speed of creating more of that from dropping, or prevents the whole thing from catastrophic errors (like in this article), ...

Those are the trade-offs engineers have to consider daily.




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