[mikestew]

It's the same as watching a Doctor or Lawyer show.

Or show involving anything HN readers would be familiar with.

“I wrote a program that reconfigures the warp drive computational algorithms to give us 50% more power.”

“In an hour? Last I looked, that whole thing was like 50K LoC. How much did you test this before you deployed it to OUR ONLY PROPULSION OUT OF KLINGON SPACE?! Someone code reviewed it, I take it?”

<Six weeks later...>

No, no one’s going to watch that (“goddamn it, Bob, quit mixing formatting commits with functional commits!”) So the director takes a few liberties, we shut up, eat our popcorn, and pretend it’s perfectly reasonable to knock that out over lunch.