machines are the ones full of weird jibber-susceptible things, the default state for everything is jibbered until dedicated people decide to spend their time unjibbering

Jōhatsu (…) refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. (…)

seems to me he’s trying to be more general than the Search example and considering that another complex project may actually have those problematic cases

i mean, he doesn’t even dismiss the patterns with code duplication, just lists it as a drawback, which agrees with his conclusion that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution