People talk to their dogs. Dogs know a few commands, but the average 2 year old is way smarter.
People talk to their cats... Enough said about that!
But programmers really talk a lot with their software.
"There is something wrong with the code." That is talking about code like a living thing.
What you should say is, "There is something wrong with the code I wrote."
This isn't just semantics or being a language nazi. Think about how you feel when you say each sentence. Think about good programmers and bad programmers. What type of sentence structure did they use?
The more you think of software as 'alive', the less you will look to the real issue: The programmer. The programmer is alive. The programmer is a human and full of faults, assumptions, and general sloppiness.
Don't sit there studying the manic depressive software bugs. Study people because that's why software looks manic depressive.
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