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by jack_pp 506 days ago
It's hard to keep that mindset after a while. People get tired of the same old pattern that's just ever so slightly different than last time. When something becomes repetitive you get bored of it. Or if the complexity of the solution you're working on is brought by a lot of moving parts it isn't a problem of figuring out the best programming truth so much as just being able to focus on the issue and keep all those moving parts in your head. That's tiring so you try to offload as much as you can on another brain