Afraaz Afraaz
Writing Featured Jan 15, 2026 1 min read

I Trust Boring Tech More Than Clever Code

Why predictable tools keep shipping when clever ideas burn out.

Boring tech doesn’t surprise you at 2 AM.
It doesn’t need a Medium article to explain itself.
It works, it scales quietly, and it ages well.

I’ll take a framework with a decade of scars over the shiny thing of the month.
Not because I can’t learn new tools — but because reliability is a feature.

Clever code is fun.
Boring code ships.

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