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Outside of life saving critical software or military spec software, no one needs to review so hard they understand it to the level you’re describing, and they do not.

There is a mathematical principle that verification of a proof is easier than any proof. The same is true in code.

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I mean, it's even easier to just not read the code in the first place, I'm not sure what that proves, other than perhaps an implicit collorary to the original quote "reading code is quite hard (so people rarely bother)"

Not even sure what you’re trying to say here mate. Sure, some people aren’t gonna do their work. That’s not really relevant here

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