A cryptic string of symbols for matching text. A write-only language — even the author can't read it a week later.
The email validation regex is 90 characters long and confidently rejects my actual email.
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todo_fix_later
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Shortcuts you take in the code now and promise to fix later. 'Later' never arrives, and the shortcuts quietly become load-bearing.
— should we fix the tech debt?
— next quarter.
(It was never next quarter.)
— next quarter.
(It was never next quarter.)
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To weaken something in a game after everyone complained it was too strong. Also what reality does to your best ideas.
They nerfed my favorite character and my entire personality went with it.
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Actually running a trained model to get an answer, as opposed to training it. The part that quietly costs a fortune in Compute.
Training was the easy part. Then the inference bill arrived and HR called.
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'Sir,' but typed by someone holding a token that's down 90%, usually while asking when it goes back up.
wen moon ser.
— it's a JPEG of a frog, ser.
— it's a JPEG of a frog, ser.
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