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YAGRI: You are gonna read it

AGRI: You are gonna read it YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it, is a standard piece of advice that warns against over engineering and building too many features too early. I think its great and saves you from wasting time, which can kill a project.

YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it, is a standard piece of advice that warns against over engineering and building too many features too early. This problem tends to happen when a UI design shows that you only need to display a few specific bits of data to the user, so you only store those exact fields in the database. This practice will pay off with just a single instance of your boss popping into a meeting and going "wait do we know why that thing was deleted, the customer is worried...".

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