Over-engineering will always cause you trouble, many trouble, but I’ll just focus on one today : performance. I’ve stopped counting how many times I’ve encountered overlooked endpoints that were just the way they were, but after taking a deeper look and a stupid fix I’ve literally changed user’s perspective of an app from slow to blazing fast. Many of those times, over-engineering was the culript. An hashmap loading a ton of data in RAM before some heavy treatment for no good reason, an enormous payload returned from the API when only a fraction would have worked… pick your poison.
Stop expecting things that never happen. You’re not Google, OpenAI or Anthropic. You’re you. Build for yourself. Build for today, adapt tomorrow.
This will avoid having those ridiculous charts :
or this one :
