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danielmarkbruce 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing code is easy, reading it isn't

You are being gaslit if you think "production code that is known to work" covers any reasonable proportion of code in production.

dingnuts 10 months ago [–]

well played, but of course inevitably whatever it's doing in production (whether to spec or not) is "working" for somebody.

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1172/ "Workflow" reference

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