[bennythomsson]

Amazing.

Next step would be to propose hardcoding 99930-3999 as the O(1) result and live with the output just being wrong sometimes. The bug rate is then in the ballpark of most modern software, including LLMs', so I'd say ship it.

[mulmen]

Doesn’t this line of thinking constantly redefine success until all software is only bugs?

[wmanley]

Ah, so that’s what’s been happening!

[mulmen]

My personal theory is that the rapture actually already happened but we didn’t notice because only QA was without sin.

[amoss]

We prefer to call it "engineering"

[econ]

Keep the secret!

[CapeTheory]

Always has been

[friendzis]

That's exactly what has been happening for decades now and what things like scrum actively encourage to happen.

Given work item does not fit into allotted timebox? Relax Definition of Done until it does ¯\_(ツ)_/¯