What are some thought-terminating clichés in the software industry?

"It is best practice." or "It is industry standard."

These are more like lies developers tell themselves out loud, but I have heard them frequently enough they may as well be cliches:

* You can’t write JavaScript without jQuery (this one is dying).

* You can’t write JavaScript without a framework. Doing so will just create a new framework.

* You can’t write applications or get hired without writing classes/inheritance.

* Security certifications are worthless for security hiring.

* JavaScript is slow.

* The DOM is slow.

* Virtual DOM is a web standard, not some unnecessary thing created for the React framework.

* Accessing the DOM without querySelectors is like writing assembly.

* Complaining about querySelector speed is premature optimization.

* I don’t need to performance test because my application is fast.

* WASM will replace JavaScript... any minute now.

* WASM will gain full DOM access to the containing page.

Not specific to programming, but I've seen the thought terminating cliche "mansplaining" used more and more in the industry to completely dismiss a man's point of view.

FAANG does it that way so it's best practice.

FAANG built the framework/language so it's going to be the market standard.

"Software development has become too complex to do it without third-party frameworks."

It is opensource so if you need a fix do it yourself.

"Premature optimization is considered harmful", therefore, don't fix inefficient designs as long as they technically work.

“Everything old is new again”.

Not always inaccurate, but often used to overlook nuance.

- “We’re going to try it our way and if it doesn’t work, we can always go back and do it your way”

- “That’s how the user wants it”

- “That’s how the boss wants it”

- “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”

- so called principles : KISS, DRY and so on

- “eval is evil”

- “early optimization is the root of all evil”

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Lets make a spike for this

I swear to god if I hear one more "agile" buzzword from some washed out PM who has no reason to be employed....

So glad I don't work in devops or SWE

Think holistically or You are not seeing the bigger picture

”Responding to change over following a plan”

"Don't reinvent the wheel."

"Use the right tool for the job"

"Use some common sense."

‘It’s too late to start over’

Scale it

It's 90% complete.

Kubernetes is cool

It depends.