This website should be a json file

I love this

Good list. Missing for me

- NIH

- GIGO

- Rule of 3

A law of physics is inviolable.... A law of software engineering is a hot take.

Here's another law: the law of Vibe Engineering. Whatever you feel like, as long as you vibe with it, is software engineering.

No laws related to AI?

Is it just me seeing the following?

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> Leave the code better than you found it

In most places, people don't follow this rule, as it ensures either you're working an extra 10-20 hours a week to keep things clean, or stuck at mid-level for not making enough impact.

I choose the second option. But I see people who utterly trash the codebase get ahead.

Many of the "teams" laws are BS, especially the ones about promotions and management. I've never been a manager or high-level executive, but it's not that all of them are either non-technical or bad managers. It's just that the combination of both skills is rare.

Ah yes my favorite - Conway's Law is just a fancy way of saying "your architecture is whatever your political mess of a org chart accidentally produced, and everyone calls it 'design' afterward to avoid fixing it."