I love how it takes 2 comments to go from *Writing safe/good C code is really hard* to *Sometimes shitty code is good, actually*. In the context of using fuzzers to find bugs in existing code.
Happens in all HN comment threads, everyone answers from their own perspective and context without explicitly specifying it, so if you don't read the sub-thread (first person talks about production software, last person talks about prototypes, in this case), it'll seem like people talk past each other, but in reality everyone is sharing truths that are applicable to their specific environment and context.
In this case, I feel like people are commenting for the sake of expressing their opinion, without much regard if it is materially contributing to the topic at hand. And now, neither am I. :(
I was commenting on why jonhohle might have been "finding more than a few issues with AFL at a FAANG in code written by engineers with the highest engineering title". I don't know the context he was finding them in, because he didn't think it was relevant enough to mention, and my whole claim here is that you have to take that context into account.