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> How materially different is this from "copy-pasted boilerplate from an example on a website that isn't fully understood"? When finding and copying, you have
by vages 3y ago
> How materially different is this from "copy-pasted boilerplate from an example on a website that isn't fully understood"?
When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking. The result is rarely the first on the search results, and usually cannot be used without some adaptation. Generated solutions usually require less adaptation.
- diggan 3y ago> When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking. You and I have workers with vastly different frontend "engineers" in that case, especially in web agency shops where "faster implemented === better" in most cases.
- vages 3y agoHaha. But taking the statement seriously: Do you think the engineers in question employ more of their critical thinking capacity when using code from a generator than when adapting existing snippets?