I think the point is that the nature of software is that these nonsensical questions are “asked” by the code all the time. Data migration, different teams using different formats, user interfaces with imperfect translations, and other scenarios all result in these silly questions popping up. And in the middle sits an engineer who needs to decide how it will work.
And my point is that if you don’t understand what the data field represents, don’t make comparisons against it. You must understand the context and then use the data. Otherwise you’ll ask nonsensical questions and get nonsensical answers and then be surprised.
