[wallmountedtv]

As a blog post with the title "Don't be clever" ending up with the author's answer being an even clever-er solution, than talking about the hidden fight against complexity in software, was an odd ending note.

[cogman10]

"Don't be clever, now let me tell you about the non-clever solution of writing a bespoke meta programming language to solve the problem of copy/paste"

[dietr1ch]

And with this inconsistency the author really pushed you into rejecting complexity.

Maybe by looking like a fool he fooled us all?

[lopatin]

To me the most ironic part was calling CRUDController clever in the first place. There could have been clever solutions to reduce the code repetition, but using inheritance to force a naive abstraction on every future programmer isn't it.

[isaacremuant]

I don't know if it's because I'm reading HN more often these days instead of spacing it out but there's definitely a sizeable quantity of "<hard statement title>" followed by "so short it seems from twitter" article which really provides little insight or is absolutely misguided.

I guess the debate is instructional in itself and it's why the comments+article combo is the real power of HN.

[chomp]

It's not a clever-er solution? As an example, `php artisan make:controller` and potentially some custom derivatives is going to solve like 95% of what he was trying to abstract.

[HappySweeney]

Until something goes wrong, and you didn't write it. At that point, have fun.

[dehrmann]

I didn't find either all that clever. It was premature abstraction, followed by abstraction-lite.