We've been working on a embedded IoT many to many data pipeline and my past week's time has chasing down a gut feeling of "code smells" at the architectural level. I've been wanting to extend the system, but have been running into way to many over-abstractions that did not sit well with me. With other team members also, there's a feeling of "how can this be better". FUD. Sure, I could throw an LLM at it and it would create the right abstractions/de-abstrations and things would work. But that feels like putting band-aids on top of band-aids. What were these code smells? It was a proliferation…