Lea Verou • 9/16/2020

Developer priorities throughout their career

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This article explores how a developer's priorities evolve throughout their career, from initially just trying to make code work, to an obsession with DRY principles and abstraction (the 'peak of drought'), and finally to a mature focus on long-term readability and maintainability, recognizing the pitfalls of over-engineering.

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