I wasn't being sarcastic, if that's what you mean. (And I'm not a professional programmer, so my coworkers don't write code.) To me, the suggestion seems so in

I wasn't being sarcastic, if that's what you mean. (And I'm not a professional programmer, so my coworkers don't write code.) To me, the suggestion seems so incredibly bad that it leaves me wondering about the headspace of someone who would suggest that. Is it somehow less bad than it seems?