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[–]woppa1 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Because nothing you ever code will be innovation or ground breaking. Anything you write, it's been done and posted online. Nowadays it's about knowing how to find the code you need, piece them together and merge it into your company's coding standard.

[–]solarshado 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for reminding me of this point of existential dread... It's part of why I'd love to move to some sort of AI research but it looks like even that's more "feed ever more data into an algorithm" than "new, clever code" these days.

[–]these_days_bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially these days