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by 49531 1234 days ago
> Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things when my time and attention is better spent thinking about the problem at hand.

This just sounds like a thought-terminating cliché; what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code? Sure, there are times where you might be generating boilerplate, cool, you're paying for a fancy snippet library, except the snippets are potentially malformed so you should check them every time.

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> what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code?

To stick with my http library example, figuring out how to pass headers or a json body to a particular library, checking status codes, was it "status_code" or just status, is the body in an attribute called body or content or json or json(). I know this is trivial if you work with the same library over and over again but people are different and some of us work with a wide array of languages or libraries.