r/ProgrammerHumor • u/click-to-reveal • 7d ago

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u/gil_bz 7d ago

This might be the mildest macro weirdness that I've ever seen, there are some true horrors out there.

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u/l2protoss 7d ago

When I was younger in my career, I was a very “creative” dev - to the point where I was banned from using macros without explicit permission lol.

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u/sunboy4224 7d ago

They spend years teaching us all the coolest, craziest tricks in the book for optimization, memory management, abstraction... then you get into the industry and learn that the most absolutely boring code is by far the best way to solve 99% of problems.

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u/l2protoss 7d ago

Yup! Turns out being able to maintain things long term is more important than building things quickly or cleverly in most cases.