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Outdated Parent Advice

Tech industry Technical debt Code quality Shortcuts Programming life Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+c ctrl+v Shipping code

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Outdated Parent Advice

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Parents: "There's no shortcut in life."

Meanwhile, developers are just over here hammering Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and StackOverflow like it's our job. Because it literally is. The entire tech industry runs on keyboard shortcuts and accumulated technical debt that future-you will definitely fix... someday... probably never.

Let's be honest, if we didn't take shortcuts, we'd still be writing assembly code on punch cards. Technical debt is just the price of admission for shipping on time.

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