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		xnx on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to be a -10x Engineer Wow. He probably thought this was making the code more compact/efficient/faster.

edandersen on April 5, 2023 [–]

No, it was job security. This happens all the time when incentives are not aligned. Some engineers even have private dictionaries to convert between the obfuscated code and the real definitions.

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