I tend to agree with the original author more than the 'git gud' remarks for the reasons generally stated. It is important to learn to write better code, but th

I tend to agree with the original author more than the 'git gud' remarks for the reasons generally stated. It is important to learn to write better code, but the world will always be full of bad and learning to cope will always be valuable. I did find that I was able to use my code writing skills to bootstrap the code reading skills. If there was code that struck me as obtuse, I would try to refactor it. Sometimes I found that the code really could be written more simply. Othertimes I found that I had missed something important about what was going on. As I did this, I learned to better intuit what the original authors probably meant and where to look for confirmation/rebuttal.