Charlie Talk - Breaking Rules

The document discusses 5 rules of software development that were made to be broken: 1. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work, but no simpler. 2. Design for reuse, but refactor for reuse. 3. Only hire the smartest engineers, but hire well-rounded teams. 4. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, but be mindful of performance. 5. The customer is always right, but delight customers with transparency and consistency. The overall message is to be wary of rules in software engineering.