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perching_aix06/16/20251 replyview on HN

> a soulless bland hellscape of confirmity.

I'll never understand this mentality. It's code, not some """self-expressionist""" art project.


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msgodel06/16/2025

I think it indicates stronger internalization of the "theory" (using phrasing from "Programming as Theory Building.")

There's a kind of "nesting" thing 10x/100x programmers do with code and it tends to manifest this way. The opposite extreme is the 0.1x programmer dequeing agile tickets they don't really understand and issuing broken PRs overworked senior dev "maintainers" LGTM merge. I think everyone exposed to corporate software (on both sides) is really tired of that.