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Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways by convolvatron on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:52PM (#44164652)
you're right. but the ability, given a good idea, to spit out a substantial amount of code that compiles and basically runs in a single session removes alot of the consternation and back and forth in those discussions

despite industry motion to the contrary, the truth is that we really can build anything we want. if we just weren't such cowards about it

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Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways by saghm on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:38PM (#44164985)
Do you find that typos are the biggest barrier to quickly writing code that compiles and runs in a single session? I'm an absolutely _atrocious_ typer (in terms of both speed and accuracy), and yet I still genuinely don't think that actual typing takes within an order of magnitude of the time it takes me to get out a quick prototype compared to debugging.
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