Law and code are only superficially similar as law always requires human interpretation plus law is an interface to reality. Code can stay contained in its nice, little, abstract box.

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drivebyhooting 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So every lawsuit dispute, divorce, traffic injury, etc… is a completely novel case that requires depths of creativity far beyond simple CRUD apps or solving 377 open math problems.

Makes sense.

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dfdydx 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t code an interface to reality as well?

	▲	oblio 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of code is an interface to other code. Nginx is how many layers removed from actual physics?