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I go back and look at my old code and find it clear and beautiful, easy to understand, a pleasure to read. "Ah yes," I'll say to myself, "that approach was clever and elegant. Gosh, past me was pretty smart!"
I like to appreciate it in this manner. Because that way, for a moment at least, I can forget about how it doesn't actually work.
But it would work beautifully, if it would work.
I love when someone opens a bug in my code and I get to "how the hell did this ever work?"
That's what happens when you take your code from a Stack Overflow question.
Don't forget AI (that scraped Stack overflow) providing a slightly different basic solution, that usually works (at least until you think about improving it).
And that is before it hallucinates a package that has been typo squatted by malware authors.
Am I the only one too paranoid to ever copy paste code from the internet and/or AI?
Code that I don't understand feels like a dead pixel when I try to picture the whole piece of software in my head. I even search for what all those one letter flags mean for a command or function before I feel confident in using it.
No, that is a healthy thing to do.
It can work or it can look good, you can't have both
Just code in a fancy font
This font is begging for some long s love
I recoiled in horror. Thanks.
Yeah, JavaScript is a true nightmare
lmfao
TFW you realize you haven't grown as an engineer