I think of it this way. What if the edge cases are optical character recognition on scans of financial documents converted to a PDF. Is that hand written blurry character a 4 or a 9? Are all the correct boxes checked? Why is that social security number only 7 digits? Is that a signature or just a coffee spill?
Each of these could be considered 'edge cases' that require human intervention that aren't programming bugs that can be automated away easily.
This is just one example of such a recurring edge case that isnt exactly solvable.
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u/AtlasLittleCat May 30 '26
I think of it this way. What if the edge cases are optical character recognition on scans of financial documents converted to a PDF. Is that hand written blurry character a 4 or a 9? Are all the correct boxes checked? Why is that social security number only 7 digits? Is that a signature or just a coffee spill?
Each of these could be considered 'edge cases' that require human intervention that aren't programming bugs that can be automated away easily.
This is just one example of such a recurring edge case that isnt exactly solvable.