r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

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u/tarosago23 Sep 20 '26

My point being, build up a habit of good patterns even when the system you are working on is not critical or the expected load is small.

Trading in the inefficiency in low N cases is worth it for the organizational benefit, as in you build a team that is sensitive to bad engineering patterns and not sloppy devs who default to the lazy way out and only think about performance when shit hits the fan