If It Ain't Broke, Don't Refactor It

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Content "UGH.I CAN'T GET ANY WORK DONE UNTIL FIX THIS BUG 5 MiNUTES SIR LATER AWE OGIKED THE BUG. LOOKS LIKE UM DONE COB THE DAY ProgrammerHumor.

Junior dev: *screaming in agony* "WE MUST CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW FILE FORMAT FROM SCRATCH BECAUSE EFFICIENCY!!!" Senior dev: *calmly sips coffee* "Zipped XML. Next problem?" The evolution of problem-solving in tech is brutal. At some point you realize reinventing the wheel isn't impressive—it's just a waste of sprint points. The beard of wisdom knows that existing solutions usually work just fine, while the passionate newbie wants to build a nuclear-powered unicycle.

The classic "test in production" approach - because who needs staging environments when you've got paying customers as your QA team? Nothing quite matches that adrenaline rush of pushing untested code straight to prod and then watching the Slack channel explode while frantically typing "git revert" with one hand and reaching for coffee with the other. It's like skydiving, except the parachute is made of Stack Overflow answers and desperate prayers.

Asking how to check LLM code quality without being an expert is like asking how to check if your parachute works without jumping out of a plane. The irony is delicious - you're using an LLM to ask how to evaluate LLM-generated code. It's the digital equivalent of asking a toddler if they think they should have more candy. The answer is always "yes" and always suspiciously in their favor.

Content Cycles in family tree software 1425 389 1 am the developer of some family tree software (written in C and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that he has two children with his own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors. Those errors are the result of my various assertions and invariants about the family graph being processed (for example, after walking a cycle, the program states that X can't be both father and grandfather of Y). How can I resolve those errors without removing all data assertions? c graph cycle assertions family-tree