📝 Simple vs. Easy vs. AI (reposting this Jan 2025 article from my blog, as I'm finding myself referring to it often recently) Back in the late 1990s, when I was first starting my software career as an intern, I worked with a senior engineer named Stan. I admired the hell out of Stan. Stan just knew stuff, and he was passionate about leveling up all the new, junior people flooding into software engineering during the first dotcom boom. Two specific pieces of his advice ended up having a…