>Senior engineers hate extraneous code. They hate seeing time and effort invested in building yet another solution to an already-solved problem. [...]
>Don't write new code when you can use, improve or fix what already exists.
Caveat: Refusing to write new code often means pulling in and/or writing a whole bunch of extraneous code.
Senior engineers also hate dependency hell, having to patch other people's code because upstream hasn't fixed it yet, knowing that might break on the next update, yoinking in massive complex frameworks and libraries when you could've just used a few simple functions, and having lots of kludgy plumbing code to wire up all those third party dependencies and generic abstractions.
All those things that people do just because it's best practice not to "reinvent the wheel". All those things that require extra work, maintenance, and system resources, but aren't directly related to solving the business problems. All that time wasted not even working on the valuable domain logic.
And then when you do eventually get around to implementing or modifying a domain case, can you even find where the domain code is in all that mess of extraneous code?
>Don't write new code when you can use, improve or fix what already exists.
Caveat: Refusing to write new code often means pulling in and/or writing a whole bunch of extraneous code.
Senior engineers also hate dependency hell, having to patch other people's code because upstream hasn't fixed it yet, knowing that might break on the next update, yoinking in massive complex frameworks and libraries when you could've just used a few simple functions, and having lots of kludgy plumbing code to wire up all those third party dependencies and generic abstractions.
All those things that people do just because it's best practice not to "reinvent the wheel". All those things that require extra work, maintenance, and system resources, but aren't directly related to solving the business problems. All that time wasted not even working on the valuable domain logic.
And then when you do eventually get around to implementing or modifying a domain case, can you even find where the domain code is in all that mess of extraneous code?