Reusability / YAGNI

Kind: tension

Record: tension:reusability-yagni

Canonical: Schema

"reusability" (structural-core layer) is traded against "YAGNI" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "YAGNI" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Composition Over Inheritance / Simplicity for Trivial Reuse and before Reusability / Over-Generalization.

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