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nsoonhui on Sept 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)

But isn't much better to just manually code it into reusable function and use it repeatedly, instead of letting AI generates all the boilerplate code and causes maintenance headache down the road?

tobr on Sept 26, 2021 [–]

> boring chores or repetitive code

> manually code it into reusable function and use it repeatedly

Refactoring every place where you do x into a reusable function that does x is a boring repetitive chore.

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