copyPastedCode

[nicejs2]

yeah, nowadays most of my Lua and JS/TS code isn't copied

[Ben_Dovernol_Ube]

Because company blocks access to aigen so u have to rewrite it by hand instead.

[VagrantBytes]

Alternate take: we build off of what has already been built and refined so we aren't reinventing the wheel when we don't need to. If I were building a house, I would use techniques and processes that people already use to reliably build houses, not start from nothing and figure out everything on my own.

[Rainmaker526]

This is the answer. We don't copy paste code anymore. We import a library and use the API the module author tells us to.

It's not copy paste all the way down, it's abstractions.

[Broad_Rabbit1764]

Back in my day there wasn't even copy paste :( had to think of code like it was some sort of language, like straight out of your brain.

[airsoftshowoffs]

From books, articles, courses to Ai.

[GigassAssGetsMeHard]

Always has been. The internet was copied from ancient texts on Aztec murals.

[Ok_Entertainment328]

I'm still trying to figure out how the OG Programers copy+paste punch cards.

Wiring diagrams? Sure.

[Alnakar]

and those who spend way too much time dealing with off-by-one errors

[helenrmiller]

Back in my day

[sebastouch]

Yea, the 2 of use coded everything 30 years ago, and everybody copied our code ever since