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by marcosdumay 258 days ago
It applies to LLM code, but if you take the law at face value, it's a very damaging one. Cleverness should be used to make your code easier to verify, not harder.

He said it with a very specific idea in mind, and like most of software engineering "laws", if you know enough to know when to apply it, you don't need the law.