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jazzyjackson12/08/20252 repliesview on HN

If I haven't looked at my own code in 6 months it might as well have been written by someone else.


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kenjackson12/08/2025

The most brilliant programmer I know is me three years ago. I look at code I wrote and I'm literally wondering "how did I figure out how to do that -- that makes no sense, but exactly what is needed!"

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matwoodlast Tuesday at 12:18 PM

I always check git blame before ripping on some code I find...9/10 times I wrote it :o