YAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It
YAGNI is a principle of radical simplicity: don't build features now just because you *think* you'll need them later. It forces focus on current requirements, preventing wasted effort on speculative work.
YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) is a principle of radical simplicity: build only what is necessary for today's requirements, not what you speculate you'll need tomorrow. It's used in agile development to prevent wasted effort on features that may never be used. The footgun is misinterpreting YAGNI as an excuse for poor design. The goal is to defer unneeded *functionality*, not to create a brittle architecture that can't be extended when new requirements do arrive.
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