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Does having to look back at 4 of your old code examples to write 10 lines count?
I didn't google it...
Isn’t that the idea. Like you know that you had a viable solution to a complex problem previously so why go through the trouble of solving it again if you already did. Even if you have to modify it, it saves time for new novel problems. I’m
You mean how to structure a for loop in a bash script? Lmao
Yes
You are?
Yeah.
My company starts all new projects from a skeleton of the last project including shared directories of usual functions we’ve created over time.
Sorry I was trying the parse the "I'm" at the end of your comment
Ah, just a typo. Or my alter ego almost escaped.
That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.