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by eternityforest 782 days ago
You're probably a better programmer than the ones who find ways to stuff algorithms and data structures where they're not needed, and reinvent things that common trusted libraries already do.

Programming isn't a sport or a game of chess.

Unless you're working in a cutting edge field, people shouldn't see your code and think "Wow, what a genius", they should think "Yep, that is definitely code, I know what it does and it has unit tests".

Any other random programmer should be able to pick up where you left off.

Unfortunately, that is highly unsatisfying to many programmers, and there's the looming threat of being replaced by robots, and I don't have answers to either of those.... If I did, I would probably know what to do about my own job search issues.

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"Any other random programmer should be able to pick up where you left off."

I'd love a code base that I could just pick up where others left off.

Wouldn't we all!