krust

> Another example is prematurely choosing a complex data structure for theoretical efficiency (say, a custom tree for log(N) lookups) when the simpler approach (like a linear search) would have been acceptable for the data sizes involved.

To be fair, a linear search through an array is, most of the time, faster than a hash table for sufficiently small data sizes.

>Or do devs around the world just have to bite the bullet and learn enough English to be able to use the majority of tools?

Yes, coding in english is the standard.

>IANAL, but It is worth noting here that DeepSeek has explicitly consented to a license that doesn't allow them to do this. That is a condition of using the Chat GPT and the OpenAI API.

I have some news for you

The "cousin you don't want to be like" is someone with an electrical engineering degree at 21?

what about Kotlin?