Old programming joke resurfaces: DRY vs WET (Waste Engineers' Time)
allanyu_ · x · 2026-09-24
A classic programming joke is making the rounds: the counterpart of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is reinterpreted as WET — Waste Engineers' Time.
The gag pokes at dogmatic deduplication: obsessively eliminating repetition with layers of abstraction can make code harder to maintain and slow engineers down.
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