The same tick-tock-tick pattern occurs in programming. There was a hacker koan about this I believe. The apprentice is lax, undisciplined, and writes buggy cod

The same tick-tock-tick pattern occurs in programming. There was a hacker koan about this I believe. The apprentice is lax, undisciplined, and writes buggy code. The journeyman sees all that he has wrought upon the poor world with his awful code, and immediately takes to applying every precept he can to produce rigorously engineered and stable code. I leave it to the imaginations of others to perceive what might lay in the third step.