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IMO it’s a “language” you need to understand in order to use. Just like you wouldn’t copy/paste any random snippet into your source code if you don’t understan
by throw-qqqqq 2y ago
IMO it’s a “language” you need to understand in order to use.
Just like you wouldn’t copy/paste any random snippet into your source code if you don’t understand exactly what it does.
I see a lot of broken regex at work from people who use regular expressions but don’t understand them (for various reasons).
It used to come with a “found this on stackoverflow”-excuse, but mostly now it’s “AI told me to use this” instead.
- qiine 2y agoyeah programmers famously understands all the random boilerplate incantations they copy past in their code to get things going. totally definitively
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoWe all have our own ideas of Utopia I guess :)
- tomsmeding 2y agoI know some people consider this fine. I do not. The fact that the world is not ideal does not mean that we cannot continue to improve things.