@billgates can relate

@enitoni But still, some lazyness is necessary for good coding:

loops, functions and reusable code are all for saving you work.

You should look at banks' , they hire monkeys

And thus we were given Clippy and Vista.

@-xlf That is smart design, not laziness.

@nblackburn designed by lazy people. It sure would be possible to do that without such constructs

@enitoni are you serious?

Is that Chandler from Friends in the bottom picture?

Also, I think the quote is hyperbole to get a point across. Not a literal hiring strategy.

@tizo there are 2 types of lazy. Short term lazy and long term lazy. The 2nd one thinks of ways to automate complex processes, write tests and clean code, reduce/prevent technical debt... so they don't want to kill themselves later fixing prod issues.

@billgates ok. Thanks?

@tizo well you said "Think it's a hyperbole" but I think it's quite literal, being long term lazy. Spend 10mins writing shitty code, spend 1 week trying to fix it.

Vs spends 2hr writing well designed code + tests + documentation. 0 issues AND future changes are able to be added very quickly.