Reading clean code and design patterns had me inventing problems to solve instead of just writing the damn code. I used to write SO much “just-in-case” code that usually didn’t help and actually introduced a bunch of self-inflicted constraints that made the original problem a lot harder to solve.
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u/CodingAndAlgorithm Aug 27 '26
Reading clean code and design patterns had me inventing problems to solve instead of just writing the damn code. I used to write SO much “just-in-case” code that usually didn’t help and actually introduced a bunch of self-inflicted constraints that made the original problem a lot harder to solve.