Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil ∊ swyx.io
What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
Hasnain says:
Sage advice.
“It is a LOT easier to scale code from a cardinality of 2 to 3 than it is to refactor from a cardinality of 1 to 2. This is a fundamentally under-appreciated nonlinearity. In other words, Preemptive Pluralization can make the difference between "sure, I'll add that today" and "this is going to take us 2 months and we'll introduce merge conflicts with every other in-progress feature."”
Posted on 2021-11-01T20:34:35+0000