“Stupid” vs “Silly”. When talking about technical things, I call something “stupid” when it is so simple it can’t really fail. “If site returns 500 error, then mark it as offline.” I use “silly” when something doesn’t make sense, “Let’s autoplay six videos at once on load”.
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I usually add context with “stupidly simple” or “stupidly straightforward”. Kinda like calling something a “dumb” process. I use silly though when, well, I think the code is acting stupid or dumb, but silly is softer and not as judgemental to me.
Everyone writes silly code sometimes. It happens. But saying that everyone writes stupid code sometimes just feels mean to me. Am I just totally in my own world or anyone else use the terms like that?