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As I see it he was doing exactly the opposite: prep work in terms of doing the tests.

• jibal 11mo ago
  That's obviously not "prep work", and in any case obviously not the sort I'm obviously referring to, so obviously not "exactly the opposite".
  • varjag 11mo ago
    He was coding everything around: checking the validity of moves, auxiliary code, win conditions and on. Anything but the algorithm itself, likely for the lack of experience. Doing the thing here would have been figuring out the algorithm and sitting down to code it which probably felt intimidating. So yeah it was exactly the opposite.
  • jibal 11mo ago
    Someone doesn't know what "opposite" means or pretends not to.