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As the lead maintainer of the Wasabi compiler project, it actually feels pretty good to have someone call it duct tape :)

Or just don't short circuit ever, and do the entire computation every time.

Correct. But the total cost of hiring a programmer is easily estimated as 3*salary. $200k/year is a fairly cheap full-time programmer with overhead. Don't forget to include all the…