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but choosing the code to not write, the code that must remain unwritten that's

Cool, can’t wait to run sudo rm -rf on a codebase and become the alpha programmer

Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet? www.folklore.org/Negative_200...

I can be a bit of a code hoarder, sometimes I keep commented-out code for too long. Git helps though 😅

Oh, the other day I did a select all and delete and it felt so fucking blissful

Ignoring code is life

Back in the day code reuse was all the rage. My working principle was, “you’ll be lucky to use it the first time”.

Yeah, the best code is the one that doesn’t exist 😁

Something something claude code

// someone else delete this. It does nothing but I don't want my PR to be full of stuff that should be on a maintenance branch

And coding programs that work correctly the first time they run makes you an excellent programmer. I've done it several times. Then I left my IT career and went to Russia for 17 years.

Nobody gives a crap. They just copy-paste and shovel cove to the pile. With AI tools idiots can do that at light speed

step one: writing step two: bug fixing step three: condensing step four: bug fixing

Don't forget all the typical ChatGPT trappings

... that and DRY, which is a form of deleting code.

Then 📁newVersion26-gitCopy

E = mc^2 + AI

And vibe coding makes you a middle manager

A great programmer and/or a pariah.

“It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.” - Miles Davis

"I was going to put it back!"

😂

I hear github is getting better.

Re-writing code you deleted but didn't mean to delete or realized you needed the last second: makes you a programmer

This! I was up for review and was struggling to hit metrics because during my entire tenure I nuked 30000 lines of code but only wrote ~1000. The code I wrote showed up in CRs but much of the code I deleted was repos (which don't show in metrics), with a few references to those repos in commits.

The median was probably midway somewhere. And by then I would have gone through several different approaches. They graded on "the curve" and 100% was very rare

dropping prod 🫡