The Whitespace Paradox

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Remember when programmers were basically digital demigods who could craft mission-critical code for lunar missions without breaking a sweat? Yeah, me neither. Today's reality is more like staring blankly at a screen, asking ChatGPT to fix our semicolon errors while we're trapped in Vim because apparently that's still a thing in 2024. And let's not forget the classic "fix one bug, spawn three more" - nature's way of keeping us humble. The golden age of programming never existed. We just replaced "I don't know how to do this" with "I don't know how to ask AI to do this for me."

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Content HOW TO WRITE GOOD CODE: START PROJECT. DO THINGS RIGHT OR DO THEM FAST? RIGHT FAST CODE FAST CODE WELL DOES IT WORK YET? NO ALMOST, BUT ITS BECOME A MASS OF KLUDGES AND SPAGHETTI CODE. ARE YOU DONE YET? NO NO, AND THE REQUIREMENTS HAVE CHANGED. THROW IT ALL OUT AND START OVER. GOOD CODE