The Camus Error: Division by Absurd

Filed under: Existential Bugs | Philosophical Loops | Syntax of Sisyphus

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Somewhere deep in a forgotten dev server, an AI tried to calculate the meaning of life, only to return:

  Fatal Error: Division by Absurd
  (Exception thrown by CamusEngine.v1.3)
  

This isn’t just a bug. It’s the *human condition in binary*.

Sisyphus as Code

Imagine a loop. Now imagine that loop forever. No break condition. No try-catch escape. Just the same input, the same boulder, rolled up and back again while your stack overflows quietly in the background.

Camus said we must imagine Sisyphus happy. Devs say: *We must imagine he left a commit message.*

Common Symptoms of a Camus Error

• Creating a to-do list for your to-do list
• Asking GPT: “What is truth?” more than twice
• Rewriting the About page for a brand that doesn’t exist yet
• Trying to A/B test the concept of despair

Debugging the Absurd

You can’t. That’s the point.

But you can refactor your expectations. Absurdism isn’t an error in the program — it *is* the program. Your job? Prompt anyway. Code anyway. Push anyway.

“Should I build this startup?”
Yes, but also: it won’t matter.
Do it anyway.

Camus didn’t want you to be happy. He wanted you to *choose anyway*. And sometimes, that’s the most powerful loop of all.

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