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[โ€“] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

One can get paid and advance through a career producing slop.

And thank goodness for that! LoL.

I wonder if how many people who write code for a living genuinely think, deep down, they're truly awful coders because they've only ever coded in an environment that demands the fastest, absolute barest minimum quality. It's so rare to get to write code exactly how one would prefer it.