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There's a fine balance between over-engineering and under-engineering, right now I'm working on an old piece of software that has been designed without any significant engineering process, while things remain easy to understand and fix, there's a deep sense among us that simple dump code repeating code has brought duplication, inconsistency and bugs that are easy to fix in one place but impossible to fix everywhere. I think most software outside of silicon valley may well be under engineered.


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