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Our built-in pattern-matching capability (very valuable in general) is not great with regards to people problems.

Programmers are humans. You can think of a human as a highly complex system. Our problems are not always "simple". Every time you see a short-phrase used to describe a solution for human problems, be very skeptical. Your phrase was "Burnout is the result of lacking of automation", but there are many others like "Just ignore what others say" or "Stop feeling sad". A highly complex system often requires nuanced and complex solutions. Short phrases simply don't have enough bytes.

And that is for a single human. If we are talking about a big collective ("all programmers" instead of a single programmer) the short-phrase solution is even more inappropriate.



The default sentiment is: This is not a mathematical theorem. All upon your interpretation. Focus on the "mostly correctness" instead. You don't want to disprove anything here because the statement is of course by anyway not a mathematical theorem.




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