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This seems so Twitter. No link to a resource that would even mention a study that says it is 90%, rather than say 10% . Ok it might be that 90% of YOUR work i

This seems so Twitter. No link to a resource that would even mention a study that says it is 90%, rather than say 10% . Ok it might be that 90% of YOUR work is integrating poorly documented APIs, then why don't you say so. Or say "I think it may be the case that ...". This bothers me because I've seen similar Twitter posts being discussed here where the Twitter post is clearly the writer's opinion but presented as a numerical fact. Is it that people who communicate over Twitter think their opinion is the truth therefore no need to present any (links to) evidence? Does Twitter make people dumb, or just attract dumb people :-)

rsanek 5y ago
Is it being presented as a numerical fact? I think it's actually fairly clear that this is just the author's opinion and is not meant to be taken literally. In general things I find that signify this include using very round numbers, mentioning it as the title in a longer piece that is clearly just opinion, and not including wording like "research has shown" or "we know that." That said, it would be great to get some actual data on this. Seems kind of hard to measure though -- while my personal projects do indeed have a good amount of API integration work, I'd find it hard to exactly say what percentage. And how are we even defining an API? Are we including eg a language's standard library?