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This is one step removed from "try different things until it works" style of programming. Not to say you're of of those programmers, but it certainly enables t

• awestroke 3y ago
  And what's the harm in that? That's how I first started out programming decades ago.
  • theduder99 3y ago
    perhaps the difference is that attitude is fine when building hobby or saas apps adding no real value to the world however that's not the type of behavior we'd expect to see for engineers having responsibility for critical systems dealing with finance, health, etc.
  • Dudeman112 3y ago
    Absolutely bonkers algorithms that no one can make sense of unless they dedicate time to study and debug it Also, it will have to be scrapped when anyone wants to tweak it a little. Sure monkeys randomly typing on a typewriter will eventually write the greatest novel in existence... but most of it will be shit May $entity have mercy on your soul if the business starts bleeding tons of money due to an issue with the code, because the codebase won't