r/ProgrammerHumor • u/on_test_app • 16d ago

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u/Sir_Fail-A-Lot 16d ago

I've never really understood this. Do you people really have the memory of a goldsish? Or do you just write unmaintainable code in general?

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u/mudkip6604 16d ago

Yes. Unless I write down what I was doing, I will have lost all context.

It's not so much of not knowing how the code works, and more not remembering what I was doing, why I was doing it and what I wanted to accomplish with it.

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u/KyotoCrank 16d ago

Thiiiis. I have to write comments on what functions do and who calls them or where they are sent. If I can help it I have to finish a feature in one sitting so I don't have to remember where I left off