Copy is all you need

Re:Copy is all you need by willsmith72 on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:42AM (#36759591)

Please tell me more. Where was he copying from? What about formatting and refactors? Was his quality as impressive as his speed?

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Re:Copy is all you need by postalrat on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:30PM (#36760244)

Start with a file like: abcde...ABCD..1234.{}()*.... and go from there.

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Re:Copy is all you need by tylercrompton on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:44AM (#36759616)

Stack Overflow, surely

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Re:Copy is all you need by high_priest on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:56AM (#36759773)

OpenAI, surely.

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Re:Copy is all you need by ourmandave on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:46PM (#36760536)

Voice dictation, Shirley.

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Re:Copy is all you need by esafak on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:01PM (#36761688)

Don't call me Shirley!

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Re:Copy is all you need by jaredsohn on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:07PM (#36760862)

programmers he subcontracted to.

Also explains why he was so fast

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Re:Copy is all you need by collinc777 on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:27PM (#36761185)

Generally the repository he was working in, but really it was any application that he had open on his machine. He would remember where words, or portion of words that he needed were, go to them, and copy and paste what he needed.

Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that. He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.

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Re:Copy is all you need by naveen99 on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:01PM (#36766405)

You win Dailywtf

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Re:Copy is all you need by willsmith72 on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:32PM (#36767483)

This is too good to be true

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Re:Copy is all you need by OJFord on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:00AM (#36904151)

Just code or would he avoid any typing this way?

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