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Comments (2)

TZubiri · 3h ago

I don't think the quote is often misused, probably 97% of the times it is used correctly, but we should not ignore the 3% of the times when it is applied incorrectly

karmakaze · 59m ago

For those 97% the usage was YAGNI, the superset of premature optimizations.