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Shows how much you can rely on spies to value their relationships. Just fraudsters. All talk, but unreliable. No wonder the profession attracts so many deceptive sociopaths. Optimizing for people who won't have your back is a "virtue" apparently...Can't even take care of their own. Pathetic.


Or it could mean, be too stupid for complex tools, be dumb and choose [simplicity].

[simplicity]: https://github.com/dosyago/dumbass

Personally I find the original law inspiring.


A related interpretation: your debugging tools need to be at least as good as your programming tools. Ideally, better.

Debugging a K8 cluster with print statements is hopeless, but if the cleverest code you can write in a dumb editor is going through a good test suite and profiler, you might be fine. How many as-clever-as-possible optimization tricks have been made viable by Valgrind?


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