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The Cost YAGNI Was Never About

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The Cost YAGNI Was Never About

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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 15 days ago

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If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.

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Very wise words, that will probably go unheeded.

It echoes the theory of constraints mantra of reducing WIP, because WIP itself has a cost.
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Code that doesn’t exist can’t be buggy

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