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> That’s the root of quite a bit of evil in software. A closely related motive is a desire to show off.

Yes but its also driven by keeping oneself employable.

" I built a simple system to do X" is not a winning conversation in an interview. GP's complex system is what ppl say they built.

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I don't think that this sort of selfish thinking is dominant. The explanation is much more simple - many in our field see complexity as a virtue, not an enemy.

That's not how you frame it. You don't say simple, you say efficient. "I built a highly efficient system to do X that required only $$$ in monthly cloud spend and handled NN operations per second..."

You can also point out how fast you built it, since simpler systems often take less time.

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