I came across 2 tweets (because they’re on Twitter, not X) recently that really seem to be on opposite sides of the same coin. The first, from Kelsey Hightower, was simply a call to think before coding. The second, from The Primeagen, pointing out that writing the code is far from simple. Now, these 2 tweets aren’t mutually exclusive, or even make competing points (I don’t believe for a second The Primeagen didn’t think about the problem before he started coding). But taken together they offer good reminder about both not coding from the hip, as well as the limits of trying to think through everything before starting the actual code writing.
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