Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by MisterTea on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:40PM
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"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
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Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by sevenseacat on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:54AM
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oh yes I've had times like this.
Recently I was looking at building a gnarly form, that had some really complex interactions and data behind it. It just kept being subtly buggy in all different ways. I threw Claude at it, went down so many rabbit holes, it was convinced there were bugs in all the different frameworks and libraries I was using because it couldn't find the issue in the code (that it had written most of).
After a couple of days of tearing my hair out, I eventually dug in and rewrote it from first principles myself. The code afterwards was so much shorter, so much clearer, and worked a hell of a lot better (not going to say perfectly, but, well, haven't had a single issue with it since).