Fuck It Principle

In software development, being able to say fuck it, and not implementing the not-so-important features is a good thing.

By saying Fuck It(TM):

• There’s less code to debug.
• There’s less features to unit test and functional test.
• Security schema protects less things.
• There’s less complication (in an already complex application). See: Feature Creep
• Deadline does not get pushed further and further.
• It prevents a decently good idea becoming stupid, by having too much features.

As a reminder, I must never ever attempt to add too much Cruft.

Fuck It is more or less similar to YAGNI, as 1 reader pointed out.

Hope this post can be a helpful reminder for readers as well.

References:

• CRUFT – Wikipedia
• YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) – Wikipedia
• Snowball Effect – Wikipedia
• Feature Creep – Wikipedia