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by Viliam1234 2539 days ago
Also, knowing math will make you think about how you could solve the problem, while everyone else's first reaction is "there is probably already a library for that". And there usually already is a library that does a similar enough thing.

Therefore, knowing math will leave you endlessly frustrated, because the kinds of tasks you would like to do are exactly the kinds of tasks you shouldn't be doing.