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It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor - Ken Shirriff:
http://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html
www.righto.comThe origin of the cargo cult metaphorThe cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
@alcinnz I think the “hocus pocus" metaphor is better, as it indicates reciting misheard bits and pieces of liturgical Latin as if it were a magic spell, and expecting something to happen. And that's what the users of the cargo cult metaphor want to convey.