Can You Write Code For This

Someone asks for a natural language parser that converts words like "three hundred million" to actual numbers. Sounds like a legitimate coding challenge, right? Maybe some regex, maybe a dictionary mapping, perhaps a small NLP library...

But our hero in the comments had a different vision. Why waste time with elegant solutions when you can just hardcode two specific test cases and then os.remove("C:\\Windows\\System32") for everything else? It's the nuclear option for edge cases. Can't have bugs if there's no operating system left to run the code on. Genius, really.

The 19,896 likes suggest that developers everywhere relate to the "if it's not in the spec, burn it all down" approach to error handling. Professional? No. Cathartic? Absolutely.