Yacine (@yacineMTB) on why simplicity beats ease, and why understanding fundamentals is what gives you optionality.
"People prefer ease over simplicity, but simplicity is what gives you optionality in the future. You can project further in the future of what's possible only when you fully understand."
"Because coding has gotten so easy now, I don't use any frameworks, or I use as little frameworks as I possibly can. If I ever need something, I can just program it myself. That way I fundamentally understand how it works because I was the person who designed it. I know about all the quirks and the edge cases I need to manage."
"You can ask the LLM to go pull the framework, find the specific function you want, add only that function, and then read it and add it to your code base. So you don't have to take on other people's tech debt into your own software."