Code Readability Debate
Discussions focus on criticizing the readability, maintainability, and quality of a dense, obscure code snippet, debating conciseness versus clarity and whether more code or less is better.
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BTW HELL OOP code bad code copilot code base bad writing code worthless wrote read codebase
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Code is worthless on it's own.
Code is harder to read than write.
Billy, it's becoming increasingly harder to believe you are writing this code yourself
Paraphrasing: this code is unreadable so let me show you some code that is even harder to read.
Spoiler : the code is not so bad
aka Talk is cheap, show me the code.
That's hardly an excuse given the significance of this code.
The urge to spagetti code is strong but must be denied.
// When I wrote this code, only Copilot and I understood what I did. Now only Copilot knows.
Exactly, more code isn't better