Why “do this right” your madness is killing innovation and crushing your soul
In 2007, I deleted the 40,000 line Java Enterprise project and rebuilt it in PHP4. My colleagues treated as if I sacrificed a goat in the server room. “The best process!” He cried. “Maintain!” They warned. Three months later, we sent it quickly. The system had been flawless for a decade.
This is not a Humbleburg – this is a confession. For 25 years, I have seen my industry transforming “best methods” from helpful guidelines into unprecedented dagma. We have formed a sect where the developers worship the Convention altar while their creativity is wiped out in Pew.
Every programmer knows drill:
- You write unit tests for each function
- You never use global variables
- You can be worshiped in the Church of Clean Architecture
But the dirty secret here is that no one admits: The most important software in history has broken all these principles.
