YAGNI! Once you start thinking about design, it can be hard to stop. All sorts of other thoughts are occurring to us — we might want to give each list a name or title, we might want to recognise users using usernames and passwords, we might want to add a longer notes field as well as short descriptions to our list, we might want to store some kind of ordering, and so on. But we obey another tenet of the agile gospel: “YAGNI” (pronounced yag-knee), which stands for “You ain’t gonna need it!” As software developers, we have fun creating things, and sometimes it’s hard to resist the urge to build
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