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by Piskvorrr 3783 days ago
Also, the computer should not spontaneously combust. And it shouldn't try to bite my hand off. And it shouldn't morph into a soul-devouring monstrosity either. In other words, there is an infinite list of things that your/my/any program shouldn't cause. Good luck making user stories for all of them.
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This so much.

If your Agile developers follow user stories to the exclusion of common sense, you should probably fire them now.

I'm fairly certain the parent post was made in jest.
Me too; hence the absurd examples :)