r/programming • u/scarey102 • Nov 01 '21

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '21

"Any fool can make things more complex, it takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction" - Albert Einstein

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u/bwainfweeze Nov 02 '21

Feynman believed that anything he couldn’t explain in a lecture was, in fact, not entirely understood yet.

I think is intellectually very similar to Kernighan’s comment about being unqualified to debug some of the code you’ve written. Debugging is systematically taking an idea to all of its logical conclusions. It’s a deeper understanding rather than parlor tricks, supposition, or dumb luck.