Why We Keep Our Software Boring on purpose

We write code every day and there's always this urge to make things smarter, more flexible, more "future-proof." But let's be real, systems rarely break because they're too simple. They break because someone kept adding stuff. Complexity builds up and then something snaps.

So we keep things simple. Simple code is easier to read, easier to delete, easier to fix at 2am when everything's on fire. Every line you write is something you have to live with. Deleting code isn't defeat, it's progress.

We pick boring tools on purpose. Battle-tested databases, libraries that have been around forever. New shiny things are fun until you're debugging at 3am, looping your logs straight into an AI prompt for help. Cope with boring. It works.

Over-engineering looks smart until you have to touch that code again. If we don't need it today, we don't need it. Simple as that.

For stuff that's hard to undo, especially money or audit trails, we slow down and think. Everything else? Keep it simple, move on.

Clear beats clever. Outdated docs are worse than no docs.

This isn't about doing less. It's about doing less pointless work. We're not here to build the most impressive thing. We're building something that keeps running, something future us won't hate.