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by j4yav 240 days ago
If you can’t communicate effectively in the language how are you evaluating that it doesn’t make you sound like a bot?
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Getting your code reviewed doesn't mean you can't code
Verification is easier than generation, especially for natural language.
The amount of time that I and my colleagues had to fight to not rewrite something instead of fixing it tells otherwise. This is a well documented phenomenon for decades now, so it’s definitely not just my experience. I had the same urge when I started coding, and I had to fight it for a long time in myself.