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Re:What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) by nsoonhui on Saturday September 25, 2021 @11:47PM (#28658238)
But isn't much better to just manually code it into reusable function and use it repeatedly, instead of letting AI generates all the boilerplate code and causes maintenance headache down the road?
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Re:What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) by tobr on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:17AM (#28658595)
> boring chores or repetitive code

> manually code it into reusable function and use it repeatedly

Refactoring every place where you do x into a reusable function that does x is a boring repetitive chore.

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