Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer.

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• Deep compiler knowledge is still interesting, but it is no longer useful to a working engineer in any meaningful sense. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026
• The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together. CMCasey Muratori26 Aug 2026
• Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026
• A sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• Engineers are sceptical of formal methods because they were burned by CASE and UML, sold as miracle solutions and imposed on them regardless of fit. HWHillel Wayne29 Jul 2026

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