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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015925)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
| category: "House Oversight" |
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| IM TRYING TO |
| MAKE YOU DESIGN |
| MY SOFTWARE. |
| v no |
| Software |
| © 2006 Scott Adams, Inc. /Dist. by UFS, Inc. |
| 235 |
| I MEAN WHAT ARE |
| YOU TRYING TO |
| ACCOMPLISH WITH |
| THE SOFTWARE? |
| CAN YOU DESIGN |
| IT TO TELL YOU |
| MY REQUIREMENTS? |
| www.dilbert.com |
| money and handle security when communicating with foreign banks is |
| necessary. A human being must write lines of code for all the rules and |
| every exception, making provision for any gibberish that might be typed |
| in by the customer. |
| Many people ask, "Wouldn't it be great if my computer could write |
| software for me? Humans could sit back and put their feet up." While |
| most people don't actually believe this could happen, they will often ask |
| why we can't specify software exactly and use unskilled people to write |
| it. Both proposals fundamentally misunderstand the nature of writing |
| software. |
| What do Programmers Do? |
| A human software programmer can write up to 1000 lines of code per |
| day. At the beginning of a project, when the work is unconstrained, |
| programmers write fast. Things slow down once programmers encounter |
| the enemy: the real world. By the time the code is complete and selling |
| in shops, the productivity of a programmer can be as low as one line |
| of code per day. This is staggeringly low and luckily only applies to big |
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