Yuna<p>We don't need more. We need less.</p><p>Every week:<br>🧠 A new framework.<br>⚙️ A new "layer".<br>🤖 A new AI wrapper.<br>🔄 A new YAML format to abstract what used to be a shell script.</p><p>And then we wonder:<br>"Why is our software hard to debug?"<br>"Why do our builds break randomly?"<br>"Why is onboarding a 6-month journey through tribal folklore?"</p><p>I once said I write bug-free software that can be finished.<br>People laughed, especially product people.<br>Not because it's wrong.<br>But because they’ve forgotten it's possible.</p><p>We build complexity on top of confusion:<br>A + B becomes C.<br>C + D becomes E.<br>Now, E is broken, and we would create a new layer, but nobody knows how A or B worked in the first place. For example HTML/JavaScript, we leave it there and just add layers around it.</p><p>Take XML.<br>Everyone says it's ugly.<br>But you could validate it automatically, generate diagrams, enforce structure.<br>Now we're parsing YAML with 7 linters and still can't tell if a space is a bug.</p><p>Take Gradle.<br>You can define catalogues, versioning, and settings, but can't update a dependency without reading 3 blogs and sacrificing a goat.<br>This is called "developer experience" now?</p><p>Take Spring Boot.<br>I wouldn't trust a Spring Boot or any java Framework powered airplane.<br>Too many CVEs. Too much magic. Too little control.</p><p>We don't need "smarter" tools.<br>We need dumber, boring, reliable defaults.</p><p>Start boring.<br>Start small.<br>Then only change the 1% that needs to be fast, clever, or shiny.<br>You'll rarely even reach that point.<br>Like everyone says, "Y is more performant and faster than X", but no one reached the limit of X. Why should I care? Meanwhile, we use performant AI.</p><p>Real engineering is not chasing hype.<br>It's understanding the system so deeply that you no longer need most of it.</p><p>We've replaced curiosity with cargo cults.<br>We've replaced learning with LLM prompting.</p><p>And somehow, we're surprised when AI loses to a 1980s Atari in a chess game.<br>At least the Atari understood its own memory.</p><p>Simplicity = less maintenance = fewer bugs = happier teams.</p><p>We need less. Not more.<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/devex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devex</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/simplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>simplicity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/softwareengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareengineering</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nocodependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nocodependency</span></a>#stopthehype <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bugfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugfree</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/springboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>springboot</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gradle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gradle</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/xml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xml</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/yamlhell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yamlhell</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/boringisgood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boringisgood</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/minimalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalism</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIhype</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cleancode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleancode</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pragmatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pragmatism</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NanoNative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NanoNative</span></a></p>