I only use "TODO" eventually followed by a sub-classification like "TODO bug": it maximizes discoverability by other devs and tools, and allows for a lot of variants (both technical and/or functional) while still permitting a complete scan with a single grep.

Or: the hardware that generates beliefs about how things should be - whether based on religious or ideological dogma -, as opposed to science which is not prescriptive and can only describe how things are.

Domains are often not very deep, as a lot of people need to understand them.

I've seen smart people quickly figure things out and propose upgrades in a matter of weeks, on points lifelong experts overlooked, or were too lazy to dig.

Reminds me of a company that was looking for people good in both the domain and software, to bridge the experts/devs gap (which is often a bottleneck, information flow between brains being slow and unreliable). They found out that it was much easier to teach the domain to devs, than to teach software to domain experts, i.e. that software was the hard skill.

>the same person with a different psychological education can become suicidal or give zero damn about the same situation

Or even like it. Reminds me of a quote about solitude: "I live on what others die of." (Michelangelo)

>burnout from having to deal with bloated software and the deadlines associated with that

I did not have the deadlines, but to bear having to deal with bloated software, my solution was vodka: since it has no color, I filled mineral water bottles with it and everyone thought I was drinking water.

Hah! Yeah I drank more alcohol that I normally do during this period, however I work from home so I never had to hide it :D

Jujutsu - I like the name.

I often see programming as going MMA with data, until you get what you want out of it.

Using brute force algorithms is going berserk, vibe coding is spamming summons in hope they get the job done, etc.

Agreed, I'd just like to complement vibe coding feels like spamming retarded Mr Meeseeks hoping they get get the job done. It's _probabilistic programming_

>My largest source of sanity in this career is to spend extra time at work doing the things that I love in my position. Ironically, I get high performance ratings because of this - but have to fight to spend my time on it.

Why do you have to fight if it's extra time? And couldn't you avoid the fighting by just doing it on regular time?

>Though abs() returning negative numbers is hilarious.

Math.abs(Integer.MIN_VALUE) in Java very seriously returns -2147483648, as there is no int for 2147483648.

You inspired me to check what .NET does in that situation.

It throws an OverflowException: ("Negating the minimum value of a twos complement number is invalid.")

Oh no, Pytorch does the same thing:

a = torch.tensor(-2*31, dtype=torch.int32) assert a == a.abs()

numpy as well. and tensorflow

Unchecked integer overflow strikes again.

Rust does the same in release, although it panics in debug.

>dozens of crocodiles attacking the soldiers en masse, and appearing out of seemingly nowhere to drag off some poor soul. The nights were said to have been filled with dire screams, gunfire, and the sounds of animal attacks.

Sounds like a metaphor for a team of unknowledgeable developpers stepping into the realm of concurrent code.

>the most weird thing they said

Reminds me of a quote from Jean Cocteau, of which I could not find the exact words, but which roughly says that if the public knew what thoughts geniuses can have, it would be more terrified than admiring.