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Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering by geodel on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:21PM (#49263914)
Retro-justification is not some flaw it is most common way people choose tech stacks.

The only logic that matters most of time is business logic of solution serving problem statement and not logic of choosing a technical stack.

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Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering by genxy on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @08:15PM (#49266259)
Post hoc rationalization

The choice we made for other reasons is the best one for these constructed reasons that didn't exist until later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias

Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14469

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Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering by stouset on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:03AM (#49268765)
The original point was that go is not a Pareto-optimal choice along any set of language criteria.

"I didn't feel like choosing $LANG's competitors, so I went with $LANG" might be how languages are chosen for projects in the real world, but it's not exactly a convincing rebuttal to the argument being made.

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