OK so then does YAGNI apply to investment? Why not let existing firms handle it in the S&P?
> YAGNI (continued)
over-engineering is definitely a problem, but so is hindsight bias.
I think that most non-trivial tech builds involve some smart investments and some dumb ones. It's essentially a portfolio of decisions made in the face of uncertainty. YAGNI is cynicism and hindsight bias, and over-generalization.
I think this is less obvious than it should be because of the popularity of the highly cynical "agile" approaches that consider a project that does not plan beyond the next sprint as somehow not taking on code debt.
>> OK so then does YAGNI apply to investment? Why not let existing firms handle it in the S&P?
Yes, don't rebuild your own balanced portfolio or pay someone to "beat the market" for you; just buy a COTS ETF, put it in the server closet and forget about it for a decade.
OK so then does YAGNI apply to investment? Why not let existing firms handle it in the S&P?
> YAGNI (continued)
over-engineering is definitely a problem, but so is hindsight bias.
I think that most non-trivial tech builds involve some smart investments and some dumb ones. It's essentially a portfolio of decisions made in the face of uncertainty. YAGNI is cynicism and hindsight bias, and over-generalization.
I think this is less obvious than it should be because of the popularity of the highly cynical "agile" approaches that consider a project that does not plan beyond the next sprint as somehow not taking on code debt.