Yes! I work with many folks objectively way younger and smarter than me. The two bad habits I try to break them of are abstractions and what ifs.
They spend so much time chasing perfection that it negatively affects their output. Multiple times a day I find myself saying 'is that a realistic problem for our use case?'
I don't blame them, it's admirable. But I feel like we need to teach YAGNI. Anymore I feel like a saboteur, polluting our codebase with suboptimal solutions.
It's weird because my own career was different. I was a code spammer who learned to wrangle it into something more thoughtful. But I'm dealing with overly thoughtful folks I'm trying to get to spam more code out, so to speak.
They spend so much time chasing perfection that it negatively affects their output. Multiple times a day I find myself saying 'is that a realistic problem for our use case?'
I don't blame them, it's admirable. But I feel like we need to teach YAGNI. Anymore I feel like a saboteur, polluting our codebase with suboptimal solutions.
It's weird because my own career was different. I was a code spammer who learned to wrangle it into something more thoughtful. But I'm dealing with overly thoughtful folks I'm trying to get to spam more code out, so to speak.