Comment by davedx
5 hours ago
As a very senior SWE with a decent amount of eng decision making responsibility these days I still find I get so much mileage out of KISS and YAGNI that I never really think about any other laws.
So much SWE is overengineering. Just like this website to be honest. You don't get away with all that bullshit in other eng professions where your BoM and labour costs are material.
I always thought it would be great if every line of software (or, chose some other unit of complexity) added to the unit cost of creating each copy. Like every bolt or gasket adds a few cents the the BOM of a piece of hardware. That fictional world would have simple, fast, and higher quality software programs.