Stolen Code

Copy paste Code theft Developer confession Ctrl-c-ctrl-v Code reuse Imposter syndrome Attribution open source

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Stolen Code

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The eternal cycle of software development. When someone compliments your code, there are only two possibilities: you spent weeks perfecting it, or you found it on Stack Overflow five minutes ago. The smug grin says it all – that beautiful algorithm with perfect variable naming wasn't crafted through years of experience, it was ctrl+c, ctrl+v from some poor soul who actually did the work. The greatest programmers aren't those who write the best code, but those who know where to steal it from.

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