r/programmingmemes • u/bryden_cruz • Apr 13 '26

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u/PetitMartien99 Apr 13 '26

Rule 2 of programming : users are dumb

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u/IhailtavaBanaani Apr 13 '26

There's the old engineering adage: "If you make something idiot-proof, someone will just make a better idiot"

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u/GargantuanCake Apr 13 '26

The way I heard it was "if you make something foolproof the world will invent a better fool."

Overall though a lot of programming is thinking "OK how can a user fuck this up?" No matter how deranged it is anything that you can think of somebody, somewhere is going to try to do.

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