A clever programmer writes clever code -- after exhausting all other options.
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Designing UIs is such a hard problem.
Sometimes I try a bunch of options and I settle on "this one seems the least annoying".
Over a sufficiently long time horizon, all code you write is legacy code.
I'm intrigued to see that Google has quantified that new code is generally buggier and less secure than code that has existed in your codebase for longer: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html