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Re:Laws of Software Engineering by grahar64 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:30AM (#47847331)
Some of these laws are like Gravity, inevitable things you can fight but will always exist e.g. increasing complexity. Some of them are laws that if you break people will yell at you or at least respect you less, e.g. leave it cleaner than when you found it.
Re:Laws of Software Engineering by stingraycharles on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:02AM (#47847589)
Lots of them are also only vaguely related to software engineering, e.g. Peter Principle.

It’s not a great list. The good old c2.com has many more, better ones.

Re:Laws of Software Engineering by layer8 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:54AM (#47848120)
Physical laws vs human laws.