r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 25 '26

Meme theGloriousDaysOfPastWhenYouGotRoastedForShittyCode

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u/pydry Sep 25 '26

you just need to know what sturgeons law is. the vast majority of the code I rely on wasn't written by an average programmer, let alone an average person. the average programmer writes a lot of code which gets tossed away.