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Yeah, it's literally not good programming if the other people who will maintain it can't work with it. Even if you think they are all idiots. You're not working with some imaginary team of geniuses.

There's not enough of the very smartest to keep the modern world going by themselves, working with your team in the real world is part of the job.



Sure. But then the “idiots” can write the tests themselves. ;)


They almost literally cannot, or rather cannot write good tests.

I have seen If (testPassed) assert(true);

Nothing happens if the test should have failed...


Then you need smarter “idiots”. This idea that literal idiots can build or even maintain complex software systems is… simply untenable.




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