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Yeah, the organization of data (and the data itself) is really the only thing that matters. Code itself is cheap and disposable. Just write the minimum number of lines of code required to get the job done, but spend time on the data model. And because you're not anticipating any future use cases, your code is often so short it can just be thrown away in the future.

A larger codebase than solves the same problem as a shorter codebase is almost always worse, has more bugs, and is harder to maintain. Code is the enemy: the only good line of code is the line that doesn't exist.



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