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[-] Gyroplast@pawb.social 67 points 5 days ago

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupére

+55653, -937? That is not beauty, even if it all "worked".

[-] regdog@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

I would say a few new lines are OK if they at least improve the readability of the code.

But given that AI was doing the work, I would say it is even less readable now.

[-] Gyroplast@pawb.social 32 points 5 days ago

Slinging random quotes at Jr. devs works best if you have one for every rebuttal:

Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Analysis is easy. Synthesis is hard. Me.

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