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> I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code.

We're all jiggle programmers then. Once the applications architecture is established, we hang new feature on it by following that architecture.

Very very few of us get to only write code from scratch every day. Most of the time, when I'm writing from 0, I'm working on a R&D PoC. If I'm not doing that, I'm jiggle programming a new feature into an existing architecture.

> With the rise of self-taught programmers, you will see more take this copying approach than the academic redistillation.

I was self-taught before university. I learned on a C=64 and then an early x86 back in the day. If you didn't figure it out on your own, you hoped you would see it in a magazine or book some place. I learned a lot about how computers worked at a fundamental level from the C=64. I don't think self-taught is the issue. I think it's how much the person really wants to know about computers and CS.