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I'm pretty sure I've seen this before, is it one of the BOFH stories?

close:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop

there's also the memory-optimization variant of this, from the land of game dev. see "the programming anti-hero": https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_t...

most of the other game dev dirty trick on gamasutra are good value -- the "(s)elf-exploitation" one from Jonathan Garrett, Insomniac Games is particularly awfully clever:

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_dev...

I am too lazy to check right now. ;-)

Honestly, this story was told to me by an SAP consultant. I do not think he was an avid reader of BOFH. I might be wrong though.

Either way, I think this approach to avoiding bikeshedding has been invented independently numerous times. ;-)

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