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date: 2025-01-30
id: 53958296-910a-4e57-8432-d20b596d4312
title: Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Feedback is
  the treatment.
---

> Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Feedback is the
> treatment. —[Kent Beck](20250130143551-kent_beck)
