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Re:Cognitive Load is what matters by helge9210 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @11:38AM (#45075547)
You can carefully pick an order of features to build in a way, that every new feature will invalidate an abstraction correctly implementing all the previous features.
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Re:Cognitive Load is what matters by kaffekaka on Saturday August 30, 2025 @12:59PM (#45076138)
Definitely true.

I don't think it is malice or incompetence, but this happens too often to feel good.

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