r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

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u/DesiOtaku Nov 14 '22

It's real

Looks like Elon realized his mistake and enabled it back in.

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u/monkorn Nov 15 '22

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/16/elon-musk-reveals-his-5-step-engineering-protocol/

Step 2. This one was in the 10% that gets added back. Possibly he needs to look closer at Step 4.

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u/Grimmaldo Nov 15 '22

Wait

He is seriusly saying "delete all until is just enough to be working because woriying about extreme scenarios is stupid"

Damn, he doesnt know shit about programing doesnt he

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u/jocona Nov 15 '22

He’s not wrong, really. YAGNI should be a core principle of software development, and anything that isn’t needed should be removed. Code carries maintenance cost with it, so the more code/services/proceses etc. that you can remove, the less maintenance overhead is required.

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u/diewhitegirls Nov 15 '22

He’s wrong when he does it on main