The case for boring software

Placeholder — sample content written to exercise the publishing pipeline. Not launch content.

Every team is tempted by the new framework. Most would be better served by the boring one.

Boring is a feature#

• It has been debugged by everyone before you.
• Its failure modes are documented.
• You can hire people who already know it.

When to be interesting#

Novelty earns its place only where it's your actual advantage. Everywhere else, spend your risk budget elsewhere.

Choose boring tools for the problems that aren't your product, so you can be bold on the one that is.