Именно так – The Bug – называется "новая" книга Ellen Ullman. Не буду пересказывать содержание книги, просто оставлю две фразы из этого произведения искусства:

"Programming starts out like it's going to be architecture-all black
lines on white paper, theoretical and abstract and spatial and
up-in-the-head. Then, right around the time you have to get something
fucking working, it has this nasty tendency to turn into plumbing.

...

It's more like you're hired as a plumber to work in an old house
full of ancient, leaky pipes laid out by some long-gone plumbers who
were even weirder than you are. Most of the time you spend scratching
your head and thinking: Why the fuck did they do that?"