perfect programmer syndrome

perfect programmer syndrome
 n.

   Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human
   error. Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability
   but relatively little experience (especially new graduates; their
   perceptions may be distorted by a history of excellent performance at
   solving {toy problem}s). "Of course my program is correct, there is no
   need to test it." "Yes, I can see there may be a problem here, but
   I'll never type rm -r / while in {root mode}."
    

perfect programmer syndrome

   Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal
   human error.  Most frequently found among programmers of some
   native ability but relatively little experience (especially
   new graduates; their perceptions may be distorted by a history
   of excellent performance at solving {toy problems}).  "Of
   course my program is correct, there is no need to test it."
   "Yes, I can see there may be a problem here, but *I'll* never
   type "rm -r /" while in {root mode}."

   [{Jargon File}]