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A reflective piece on how developers and engineers fall into the 'tradeoff trap' — the tendency to frame every technical decision as a balanced tradeoff when in reality some choices are simply better or worse than others. The post argues that invoking tradeoffs can become a cognitive escape hatch that avoids making hard calls, and encourages more honest, context-driven reasoning when evaluating technical options.

The Tradeoff Trap