It's harder to read code than to write it.
Joel's first law: reading is the bottleneck, not writing. The Netscape 6 disaster, 25 years on, is still the textbook case of corporate amnesia about rewrites.
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All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Every layer we stack between ourselves and the metal eventually breaks. The fix isn't a better abstraction—it's knowing what's underneath when it does.