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As sad as it makes some version of me to say, the majority of code that gets written every day doesn't need to be good code. I am doing a pet side project right now, completely with copilot. I haven't written a line of code, documentation or anything else. The code is pretty poor but I don't care because I just need it to take a specific input and produce a specific output and I only need this to happen once and then I'll throw the whole thing away. As I mentioned elsewhere: this didn't get me the result faster than I could have done by hand, but it did let me not spend the entire time in deep focus trying to write all this.


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