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The two are not always observed together.
Like any problem-solving activity, creating software has an elegance about it, like an experienced gardener who seems to intrinsically know where things should go, when things should be done, and what not to do. It may seem like they are puttering around, but they are executing on years of experience. Like any mathematical formula, there are two overriding factors when it comes to code: Is it correct and is it efficient? The two are not always observed together.
ex David Anderson (with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly). The Value Flywheel Effect : Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud (2022) : 177
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via a telling search for “puttering” + “infrastructure.” many of its results concern capitalist modernity versus backwardness, so called (although not in the present instance).