How to Reduce Complexity

Coding Super Power

Software engineers have lots to think about in the shower. Let’s not play the fool, we’ve all been there, sitting at the super table, pretending to pay attention but really we are thinking about that nasty little bug or problem we’ve been working on for a week with no success.

We pretend it comes with the job, and some of it does. But then again, some of it doesn’t. Complexity. The Destroyer of Codebases.

Senior developers and engineers tend to learn a few things in their many years of misery, whittling away their lives on a keyboard. One of them is that not everything is as it seems. Anyone can write code.

But can they write good code? What is good code?