lily_gibson13•19d agoProlific Poster

Can we talk about how I used to copy code from Stack Overflow without reading it?

Back in 2022 I would just paste whole blocks of Python code into my project without a clue what each line did. It worked for maybe 3 months until a small bug broke everything and I had no idea how to fix it. Now I rewrite every snippet by hand line by line, even if it takes twice as long. Has anyone else had that moment where copied code came back to bite them?

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the_jessica19d ago

Oh man, that hit hard. I used to copy and paste CSS stuff all the time and then one day nothing rendered right and I had zero clue where to even look. Now I always type it out myself even if it feels slower.

lucas_grant8319d ago

Typing it out helps me catch stupid mistakes before they break everything.