[cogman10]

"Don't be clever, now let me tell you about the non-clever solution of writing a bespoke meta programming language to solve the problem of copy/paste"

[dietr1ch]

And with this inconsistency the author really pushed you into rejecting complexity.

Maybe by looking like a fool he fooled us all?

[appplication]

I think it’s just a great metaphor, and an experience I seem to relive over and over. Every time I think I have something figured out, hindsight always shows me I didn’t. This probably leads to me living in a state of perpetual overconfidence. Because even if I don’t fully know what I’m doing, look at past me! That dude had no clue what he didn’t know!