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@wakame @futurebird when I’m feeling extra dramatic I sometimes think of Diane Duane’s “So You Want To Be A Wizard”; we’re in a war against entropy itself, a sandcastle versus the tide, utterly unwinnable. And yet we show up every day and carve out a little place where something is Better for the people relying on our work. A bug fixed here, a tiny efficiency win multiplied by running a trillion times a day there.

“To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage…”

@wakame @futurebird can confirm, I work on the standard library for a major programming language and my working assumption is “you can tell I’m writing a bug because my hands are moving”.

Which is why we have tens of thousands of tests and multiple code reviewers and elaborate compiler checking and teams of people dedicated to making sure everyone else’s code that uses my code still works and everyone “dogfoods” the changes and and and… stuff still slips through every once in a while.