[hinkley]

All software has bugs.

All abstractions leak.

Composition always leads to new problems.

And we are talking here specifically about people using “good practices” in a way that makes the code far more complicated than it needs to be.

The guy I know right now who writes the most tortured code is so stuck on code deduplication that he’s made a mess. Stepping through his code is a recursive nightmare of wiggle words (compounded by his raging overconfidence in his grasp of English). His code has no shape and he likes it that way.

Somebody hurt him and we are all paying for it.