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Some of this comes down to "why bother learning anything?"
I don't know what your dashboard does. I made a simple display at an old job that showed some stats about new user signups. It took like an hour or two, and I'd never used the particular front end library before.
Edit: lines of code is a poor metric* but even so 20k seems like a lot
*For example, the difference between
and
But why would I care about spending a week learning front end stuff when I can spend that week learning stuff that’s actually important for my job? Even had I actually learned it I’d have forgotten by next time I have to use it since too long would have passed.
There’s no glaring issue as big as exposing keys, I’m not that dumb, I don’t let AI have those. There is 100% some redundant code, AI likes to make 10 helpers that do variants of the same thing, but right now it works and still shows no signs of breaking down a year later. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
Again, we're circling the question "why learn anything?" I seen to have as an assumption that it's worth it for its own sake more often than you do.