He started the article with: "When building a new thing, a good first step is to build a thing that does nothing." and later he adds: "Too often, I see relativ

He started the article with: "When building a new thing, a good first step is to build a thing that does nothing." and later he adds: "Too often, I see relatively inexperienced developers dive in and start writing a big complex thing" He is advicing to before start building something, make sure that the context is rightly settled.