The Instinct to Commit Everything
As developers, we’re trained to put things somewhere “proper”:
- version control
- documentation
- tickets
- dashboards
That instinct is useful — until it isn’t.
The Things That Don’t Age Well
Some artifacts are only useful for a moment:
- a one-off data sample
- an intermediate transformation
- a temporary reference during debugging
Committing these often creates more confusion than clarity.
A Lighter Approach
Instead of asking “Where should this live?”
I ask “How long should this exist?”
If the answer is “five minutes,” then the tooling should match that lifespan.
Letting Go Is a Skill
Temporary workflows are not sloppy.
They’re intentional.
Knowing when not to formalize something has saved me more time than any framework ever did.
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