biggestLie
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Hey, it SHOULD work, and it DOES work are two very different things
That’s not a lie, The programmer was just confidently incorrect.
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
When a programmer says, “It should work now,” they don’t mean that they think it’s going to work. What they mean is, “This is almost certainly not going to work, but I don’t know how or why it’s not going to work, so I’m going to throw it out into the wild and hopefully figure that out by watching how it explodes.”
TODO
“Yeah, I can do that.”
And the flip side
“I don’t think this will work”
And then it does, that one scares me more especially when I’m confident it isn’t gonna work.
Hey, it won’t take much time to fix it.
proceeds to take entire day fixing it.
I am telling it to myself by the hour…
Sure, it’ll only take 5 mins
“Yeah I can get a job”
“This should only take a minute”, “ok I fixed it”, “you should be able to save now”, “I’ll get to that feature soon” – My programmer friend on a pixel art programmer he’s been building and I’ve been testing for him.
“end of the day for sure”
It’s Schrodinger’s code, it both does and does not work until you try it.
“This is a trivial 1 point task”
Funny especially from Paul Graham. Probably the person who saw the most startup pitch decks ever.
*I love working on SEO Optimization*
when you write no tests
Hey, I was actually right once!
“QA enters the chat”
“Works on my machine”
Was anyone else traumatized by this hateful post?
“this is easy”
That’s me fixing my computer
You know, like they say, if you repeat a lie often enough, it may seem to become true…
Before I alert boss man I have a solution that has at least worked once for me and I’m confident it’s fixed. Call him over three times and it isn’t working he will know you are an idiot. And that should better be our dirty little secret.