This excellent article reminded me a lot of something I tried to get at a while back: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/11/26/the-biology-of-sloppy-code/

This excellent article reminded me a lot of something I tried to get at a while back: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/11/26/the-biology-of-sloppy-code/ https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/11/26/the-biology-of... When I wrote that article, it didn't seem to resonate with anyone at the time. I've been thinking about it more lately in the era of LLMs.