Dilbert cartoon first published on Tuesday 26th August 2003

Dilbert//5246, first published 23 years ago on Tuesday 26th August 2003

Tags

million lines of code irrelevent data key your car no choice

Official transcript

"Our new product has half a million lines of code!"

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

OUR NEW PRODUCT HAS HALF A MILLION LINES OF CODE!

TRANSLATION: THERE'S NOTHING GOOD ABOUT THIS PRODUCT, SO YOU HOPE I'M IMPRESSED BY IRRELEVANT DATA.

NOW AVAILABLE IN ECRU!

YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE BUT TO KEY YOUR CAR ON THE WAY OUT.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Comic Strip Title: "Impressed by Irrelevant Data"

Summary:

The comic strip features a conversation between Dilbert and a coworker, where the coworker is excited about a new product with "half a million lines of code." Dilbert is unimpressed, pointing out that the code's complexity is irrelevant to the product's quality. The coworker responds by boasting about the code's availability in ECRU, a color code system. Dilbert remains skeptical, suggesting that the coworker's enthusiasm is misplaced.

Key Points:

• The coworker is overly excited about the product's code complexity.
• Dilbert is skeptical of the code's relevance to the product's quality.
• The coworker boasts about the code's availability in ECRU.
• Dilbert remains unimpressed by the coworker's enthusiasm.

Humor:

The comic strip pokes fun at the tendency for people to get overly excited about technical details, such as code complexity, without considering their actual impact on the product's quality. The coworker's enthusiasm is exaggerated and absurd, making for a humorous exchange.

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