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jatinsyesterday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

> but could not recreate for a good hour.

For certain work, we'll have to let go of this desire.

If you limit yourself to whatever you can recreate, then you are effectively limiting the work you can produce to what you know.


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rileymichaelyesterday at 5:59 PM

you should limit your output (manual or assisted) to a level that is well under your understanding ceiling.

Kernighan’s Law states that debugging is twice as hard as writing. how do you ever intend on debugging something you can’t even write?

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