You know what costs us sanity? It's not code. It's people. Scope creep. Last-minute specifications. Pointy-hairs who don't understand technical debt, and need

You know what costs us sanity? It's not code. It's people. Scope creep. Last-minute specifications. Pointy-hairs who don't understand technical debt, and need everything done yesterday. Design by committee. Too many cooks in too many kitchens. Legacy processes, legacy data, legacy user habits. Unrealistic expectations, unrealistic timelines, and unrealistic budgets. Marginally competent coworkers. Office politics. Compared to those, callback hell and and classitis are a dream come true. And while all the problems above are reducable with the right processes, you'll never shrink them all to zero. "Algorithms may have mathematical underpinnings, but computer programming is a behavioral science." - @brixen