Knowing What To Copy Is The Real Tech Skill

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Knowing What To Copy Is The Real Tech Skill

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The eternal dance of modern development summed up in one perfect Quora response. Sure, copying code from StackOverflow costs $1, but knowing which code won't burn your production server to the ground? That's the $100,000/year expertise right there.

The real engineering isn't in typing semicolons—it's having the battle scars to recognize which GitHub gist will solve your problem versus which one will have you debugging until 4am while questioning your career choices.

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