I hate almost all software (2011)
The older and more experience I get the more I find myself turning into a complexity zealot, to a really extremist extent. Every time I see something introduced at any level that isn&#x27;t 100% strictly necessary to the problem being solved it triggers a kind of accumulated PTSD is almost physically painful.<p>I know everyone <i>thinks</i> they like simplicity but my observation is that about 95% of software developers have a complexity fetish. Literally any opportunity they get to introduce something over and above what is essential to the job they are doing they will do it. For many its almost built in as a part of their value system (if all I do is solve the basic problem then I&#x27;m just a mediocre mundane developer right? I want to be a rock star who develops frameworks and invents new things that other people use).  And yet the epitome of genius in my mind is finding the solution that solves the problem without introducing anything at all.<p>Again, I know 80% of the people reading my comments right here will nod their heads and identify with it and yet <i>still</i> go away and see themselves as exceptions to the rule and create another abstract class or define an optional configuration file or make their code automatically parse an extra environment variable with a regular expression or .... you get it....<p>We had to add something to the database the other day. Big argument. Should be one to many? many to many? what if this or that happens? what if requirements change? You know what - for the requirement <i>wa actually had</i> it was solvable with a single integer field on an existing table. But this is a battle that has to be fought ... over and over and over ...