2023-04-10

Stop it with the abstraction, real engineers go down, not up

You’re not that smart, and that’s why the new JS Framework seems so great. They figured out how to do edge streaming and eliminate cold boot times. Your app could be 20% faster.

You’re not that smart, that’s why you shouldn’t implement it yourself.

You’re not that smart, and that’s why you forgot about all the stuff in your current framework that makes you so fast. Stuff that has yet to be implemented in the new framework, or cannot be implemented because of the new constraints.

You’re not the smart, so you throw the baby out with the bathwater.

You know better now, so you steal their best idea.

You know better now, so you try implementing it yourself to better understand.

You know better now, so you integrate it into your framework/workflow instead of throwing it out.

You know better now, so you’re a better engineer.