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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by contravariant on Sunday April 30, 2023 @07:31AM (#35761590)
Likewise programmers are not experts on the things they write programs for so it is acceptable for them to just do the bare minimum of translating business requirements into code and see what bugs pop up.

Right?

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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by Karunamon on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:21AM (#35762292)
Programmers usually have documented acceptance criteria to meet, and those criteria are usually not up to them.

Poor analogy.

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