Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code

Re:Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code by Cthulhu_ on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:18AM (#44386685)

But it's a false premise; the claim is that just copy/pasting something is faster, but is it really?

The demanding / loud person can and should be ignored; as a developer, you are responsible for code quality and maintainability, not your / their manager.

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Re:Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code by al_borland on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:58AM (#44386996)

I agree. I always take the time to clean things up along the way, but short term thinning is often incentivized and rewarded.

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