[cqqxo4zV46cp]

As someone in leadership, my ‘strong opinion held loosely’ on this, is that there’s absolutely no way to meaningfully build this skill in people, in a theoretical setting.

You can, at best, make them aware that there is such thing as “too much”, and “the right tool for the job”, and keep reminding them.

But nothing, nothing, comes remotely close to the real-world experience of needing to work with over-engineered spaghetti, and getting frustrated by it. Especially if it’s code that you wrote 6 months prior.

Juniors will always do this. It’ll always be the senior’s job to…let it happen, so the junior learns, but to still reduce the blast radius to a manageable amount, and, at the right moment, nudge the junior toward seeing the errors in their ways.

[carlmr]

>nudge the junior toward seeing the errors in their ways.

At least plant a seed of doubt early on.