Some of these laws are like Gravity, inevitable things you can fight but will always exist e.g. increasing complexity. Some of them are laws that if you break people will yell at you or at least respect you less, e.g. leave it cleaner than when you found it.

There is a small typos in The Ninety-Ninety Rule

> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of development time; the remaining 10% accounts for the other 90%.

It should be 90% code - 10% time / 10% code - 90% time

Been in Software Engineering for over 2 years now and I'm only hearing most of these named laws for the first time. Am I cooked?

It's strange to see many non-software related "laws" here, such as the Dilbert Principle, but not Internet cornerstones such as Godwin's Law.

Better list https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

Is it not the same as https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws ?

Unfortunately, violation of any of these laws don't seem to have immediate consequences. That's why the IT industry is in ruin.

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"Polishing a turd" is missing. Making something slightly better when it should be removed. Like running Flash apps in 2026.

It's proverbs, not laws

Most of them are also wrong