Also a programmer here but I agree more with your girlfriend's style. You can either use battle-tested libraries or you can try to understand and reimplement t

Also a programmer here but I agree more with your girlfriend's style. You can either use battle-tested libraries or you can try to understand and reimplement them to suit your use case. The former is safer but the latter is necessary if you want to truly understand and build skills. That said, yea, not when there are deadlines (expecting guests).