you-aint-gonna-need-it

Every feature has a cost: code to write, tests to maintain, complexity to manage. Speculative features often go unused while creating real burden.

If your justification includes "might", "probably", "eventually", or "in case", STOP:

| Development time | Hours building unused code | | Testing burden | Tests for features nobody uses | | Maintenance | Updates, security patches, dependency management | | Complexity | More code = more bugs, harder onboarding | | Cognitive load | Developers must understand unused systems | | Technical debt | Speculative abstractions often wrong |

استخدمه عندما تميل إلى إضافة ميزات "لوقت لاحق". يُستخدم عند بناء أنظمة "جاهزة للإنتاج" قبل الحاجة إليها. يُستخدم عند إضافة المرونة غير المطلوبة بعد. المصدر: yanko-belov/code-craft.