Why do software developers love complexity?

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anovikov · 9h ago

We love complexity because it lets us create moats that compels bosses to keep us employed because no one else could understand our shitty purposefully overcomplicated code.

rvz · 9h ago

TLDR: It is for job security. To convice their managers that *only* they can understand the terrible code the have written the software in.

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Why do software developers love complexity?

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