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delbronskiyesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

So we’ve already grown nostalgic for the old days… skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? That made so much more sense back then… but it’s been 6 hours and I can’t figure out why this does not work anymore. So you read some docs but they are poorly written. So you find something on Google and try to hack that into your solution. But nope, now more stuff broke. There goes your day.


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AstroBenyesterday at 11:25 PM

> skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? That made so much more sense back then

This is exactly how you learn to create better abstractions and write clear code that future you will understand.

bluefirebrandyesterday at 11:17 PM

Yeah, why spend time puzzling over old, proven code that you wrote. Instead spend your time puzzling over new, unproven code that an LLM generated