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The best engineers I know delete more code than they write
Junior engineers add features. Senior engineers remove complexity
Every line of code you write is a liability. It needs to be maintained. It can break. It adds cognitive load to anyone who reads it later
The best pull requests I've seen in the last year? Half of them deleted more than they added. Someone refactored three classes into one. Someone replaced 200 lines of custom logic with a library function. Someone removed an entire abstraction layer that wasn't pulling its weight
Deletion is a skill. You have to know what's safe to remove. You have to understand the system well enough to see what's redundant, over-engineered, or just wrong
Next time you open a file, ask: what can I remove?
The best code is the code you don't write