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100% agree with this, less code = less maintenance. Very few people truly understand this and why it's important.


In my latest app, I've noticed that I get the greatest highs when I write one specific function, and then rewrite it to be generic enough to handle four different elements. Great fun.


This is why I've never been impressed with people who are supposedly 10x programmers, but are actually people who just hammer out tons of code in response to any given problem.

It strikes me that I'm seemingly one of the few people at my workplace who can handle abstracted functionality comfortable and make use of third party code/libraries without fear.

tl;dr, I wrote a customer service app for my company in about a week flat.




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