One of my alltime favourite jokes in the context of software engineering is:

> "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

I recently discovered it came from a [post on X](https://x.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868).

It's been 16 years since it first came out, and there's finally a small update we can make:

> 16 years later, we’ve finally solved off-by-1 errors with the help of agents.
> Unfortunately, we replaced them with AI slop.
> Two hard problems remain.

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P.S. I appreciate that while writing this, antigravity gave up with this one on the fly:

> A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"