> but that you can't build it from first principles Do not confuse principles (which are universal, simple and beautiful) with specs (which suck shit a metric

> but that you can't build it from first principles Do not confuse principles (which are universal, simple and beautiful) with specs (which suck shit a metric ton per second). > it's just a more structured way of hacking it until it works You're confusing hacking with cargo cult coding. Hacking until it works is exactly this formal loop: collect the data, build a model, test if it's applicable. Cargo cult is "google for an answer, paste some code from stackoverflow, see if it works". The OP article is about the latter.