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Re:What is negative engineering? by MPSimmons on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:39AM (#33953579)
>Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives

You don't need another name for this. This is part of the engineering process.

Re:What is negative engineering? by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:18AM (#33954815)
How can you prove your blogging chops if you don't name stuff?

You see this a lot in academia as well, they absolutely love to name things, and think the teaching and learning of those names is important in some manner.

Re:What is negative engineering? by croo on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:38AM (#33955796)
I usuall call this "meta-programming" or "meta-work". The work you need to do in order to make way for actual work.
Re:What is negative engineering? by angarg12 on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:57PM (#33961683)
Glad to see I'm not the only one baffled by this article. If you've ever developed and maintained software in production, you had to deal with failures. Is just part of the regular software development lifecycle.