Comment by adam_arthur

There are tons of core principles that can be learned that largely apply across fields.

One prime example, single source of truth for data/concepts. To be violated only when performance is meaningfully improved (denormalized databases). But when you do so, you should definitely recognize you're opening up out of sync issues for that performance gain.

Though for the majority of code, there is no performance benefit to adding multiple sources of truth. Yet it's the most common error I see re: quality.

The sad thing is that software engineering fundamentals and best practices never became widespread or widely taught in school prior to LLMs