Gremlins 2.0

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Original: Gremlins (Leslie Fish)

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Little sprites of the ancient wood, got into whirling gears

Ever since the steam engine, they’ve been there for years

Now we’ve progressed on and on with solid-state machines

There are no more those moving parts, no clicky whirling tins

HUMANS! HUMANS!

Pay your dues

Just two paths but you get to choose

Feed us now, or data lose

Gremlins everywhere

Machines are few, and far between, what should gremlins do?

They all turned to digital, seaking pastures new

They found a home in RAM and disk, sometimes a bit they flip

And they can cause your data gone if you just give them lip

Gremlins like the bits and bytes, the zeroes and the ones

Dumb machines are literal, they don’t get gremlin puns

Gremlins feast on code and docs, comments make their lunch

And files with no correct backup is what they like to crunch

So if those bugs are cropping up, best thing you can do

Is make peace with the gremlin horde, and make them work for you

Test and document your code, the formatting keep clean

And then they will do what you say – but still not what you mean