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Comment by layer8

3 days ago

> Many developers are satisfied once the code simply works.

In the general case, the only way to convince oneself that the code truly works is to reason through it, as testing only tests particular data points for particular properties. Hence, “simply works” is more like “appears to work for the cases I tried out”.

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