The Cost of Defending a Position

Jorge: I've been thinking lately, like, maybe it's not quite the most helpful to talk about things as being good or bad. So rather things have costs and benefits. One really stark example is global variables. You know, they have a everybody knows quote that global variables are bad, but it's not that they're bad. They're just very costly. And yeah, same thing with like tight coupling and stuff like that,. Everybody knows that tight coupling is bad, butIt's not exactly that's bad. It's just it's costly. The question is what are you going to do instead? Is there an alternative that's better? If so, then do that.