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I don't think that's a YAGNI reply, it's a don't-reinvent-the-wheel or anti-NIH reply.

Right. There's a world of difference between a mature, well maintained database library and some random goofy thing to post to social media written by newb coders. A corollary to writing less code is doing less debugging -- and furthermore, exploiting freely available code that represents 1000's of hours of debugging already done for you.

Good taste is just a form of 3rd order laziness.

> Good taste is just a form of 3rd order laziness.

Great line! Saved in my quotes file.

I think the only proper YAGNI reply would be not to use any kind of user input.

Of course, only if you actually don't need it.