How To Make Tea With Zero Instructions

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How To Make Tea With Zero Instructions

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The tea bag is still wrapped in its paper, sitting in cold water with the string hanging outside the mug. Classic case of "it's so obvious, why would I document it?" syndrome that plagues software development. Future maintainers of this tea codebase will spend hours debugging why caffeine isn't being properly instantiated. Remember folks, what's intuitive to you is a complete mystery to someone who's never brewed that particular blend before!

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