I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is future proofing. What is future proofing? Why do we do it? How do we do it?

You will learn all that before I'm done talking today. Okay, so first let me explain what future proofing is.

And then I'm going to go back

and give a little history and then walk through how and when and why we future-proof. Okay,

so what future-proofing means is when we make a mechanic, how much do we think about future uses

of the mechanic? And the idea is, if we think about future uses of the mechanic?

And the idea is, if we think the mechanic is going to come back and we think we might want to expand on the mechanic or shift the mechanic,

we want to think about are we leaving ourselves open-ended enough that we can do that?

Now, there is pros and cons, you know, the...

Why don't we just future-proof everything?

And the answer is that you lose out on some flavor

and some specificity and or you could make things wordier.

Like, there's a reason to not necessarily future-proof everything.

And once again, if we're going to make a mechanic

and we're never going to bring that mechanic back,

we don't think the mechanic is returning,

there's really no reason to future-proof it.

You know, you're just adding extra words

or doing extra things that aren't going to matter.

But if you are going to bring it back and you don't future-proof it, you might make it harder

to use later.

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