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Stop Saying “It Depends.”

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Mirek Stanek
Jul 06, 2026
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“Well, it depends.”

We love saying it. We think it signals to the room that we grasp the vast, complex, multi-dimensional chess game of software architecture.

We think it makes us sound incredibly smart.

In reality? You are doing one of two things: dodging the responsibility of making a hard call, or quietly bragging about your own technical brilliance wit…

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