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by Balinares 112 days ago
It's one of those things where people think, it's there, and it works.

The whole business of software engineering exists in the gap between "it works today on this input" and "it will also work tomorrow and the day after and after we've scaled 10x and rewrote the serialization abstraction and..."

See also: "Glorp 5.7 Turbo one-shot this for me and it works!"