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Daily Prompt [2026-03-25]: What is a 'feature' that is actually a bug, but everyone got used to it?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-25/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

@AdmSnackbar > You claim, humanities define words precisely.That is not what I said. I wrote: "humanities work to precisely define and further refine their concepts" meaning they rework the language as life goes on. Maybe I should rephrase it, but I'm trying to say that in SWE - in other words people at work - we should work together to understand things the same way.> Why would I have to prove that CS is better at it? I didn't say CS and you don't have to prove it. Ironically, we are getting hung up on definitions, when that was the main premise of my blog post - the one from which I quoted the original excerpt.> in fact, redefining concept is the entire point of philosophy.It isn't.

Daily Prompt [2026-03-21]: What is the digital equivalent of 'measure twice, cut once'?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-21/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

I mean, they were. And I literally just saw someone troubleshooting a laptop, opened it up and saw cockroaches so real bugs are breaking software even today. So my answer is that.

Daily Prompt [2026-03-02]: If you could execute one shell command in real life, what would it be?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-02/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

Eh, somewhere in between. I've learned a lot of empathy when reading other people's code and I carry that on when looking at code from myself in the past. I feel like empathizing with the context and people who wrote code in the past helps better understand it and leads to easier debugging.