'You can't find bugs by reading code.' A one-line post about code review split the experts (mathstodon.xyz)
The provocation was doing a lot of work as written, so the author stepped into the thread to narrow it: as a mathematician, he means you can't find all bugs or any particular bug — not that finding bugs never happens.
A WebAssembly co-founder wasn't buying the softened version either, calling the thesis 'self-justification for being a lazy code reviewer.' And a 90k-karma veteran landed the real finding: there is no 'the' purpose — we all thought we were reviewing for the same reasons, and we simply aren't.
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