Cynical Software ((full)) Today

You spend six months mastering a technology. You read the docs, you do the tutorials, you build a side project. By month seven, the maintainers announce they are deprecating the feature you built your entire architecture around. They suggest you migrate to the new "Beta" version, which has a completely different API and zero documentation.

This is . It mistakes process for quality. It mistakes fear for diligence. cynical software

Cynical software doesn’t trust anyone—not the network, not the database, and certainly not itself. It operates on the core belief that , and it is never surprised when they do. You spend six months mastering a technology