> You can actually make a very comfortable career of Senior and Staff by learning to identify this kind of work/system and proposing ways to simplify it.
We had a Grafana dashboard where one of the columns was a short Git hash. One day, a commit got the hash `89e2520`, which Grafana's frontend helpfully decided to display as "+infinity". Presumably it was parsing 89E+2520.
Not a chance, if Alphabet can call a molten salt power storage spinoff "Malta" (and really, really drive home the point that they were coming up with names by spitballing random "molten"-like sounds)