@fayazara: I put “do not overengineer” in my AGENTS.md. it created a lightweight extensible overengineering prevention framework
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A developer shared that adding 'do not overengineer' to their AGENTS.md file resulted in the creation of a lightweight extensible framework to prevent overengineering.
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I put “do not overengineer” in my AGENTS.md.
it created a lightweight extensible overengineering prevention framework
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