The 10/90 Rule Of Software Engineering

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The 10/90 Rule Of Software Engineering

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Nothing hits harder than Google themselves confirming what we've all secretly known. You spend hours crafting an elaborate solution, only to wake up at 3 AM wondering if your entire codebase is just an elaborate house of cards held together by desperation and StackOverflow answers. The real engineering skill isn't writing clever algorithms—it's convincing yourself that your janky workaround is actually an elegant design pattern. And somehow we're still getting paid for this.

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