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= YAGNI
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Sometimes you are really certain that something is a required substep for another thing that is coming right afterwards. 

When things are this concrete, fine, just do the substep.

But you have to always beware of cases where "I'm sure this will be needed at some unspecified point in the future", because such points tends to never happen.

YAGNI is so fundamental, there are several closely related concepts to it:
* <backward design>
* <assign the hard task to the lazy person>

\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20230130144440if_/https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/code_lifespan.png]
{title=<xkcd> 2730: Code Lifespan}
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