Never Trust The Copy

Keyboard shortcuts Copy paste Developer habits Trust issues Ctrl+c Clipboard Productivity Workflow Programming quirks

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Never Trust The Copy

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Evolution of a developer in three stages:

First, the peasant way: manually highlighting with the mouse like it's your first day with a computer.

Then, the standard keyboard shortcut approach that separates the professionals from the amateurs.

But the final form? Hitting Ctrl+C multiple times because you've been burned too many times by phantom clipboard failures. That satisfying machine-gun tapping of the C key is the sound of trust issues developed over years of lost code and broken promises. The tuxedo is just what your soul wears after enough clipboard betrayals.

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