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Chatting with my neighbor, a retired teacher, made me realize I was overcomplicating my first Python script.
She said 'just get it to work, then make it pretty' after I spent 3 days trying to write perfect code for a simple number-guessing game, which finally got me to stop overthinking and just run the thing.
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jake63811d ago
Bad advice honestly. That messy first draft just becomes technical debt you have to fix later. Spent a whole month untangling a coworker's "just get it working" script that was impossible to update. Clean code from the start saves huge headaches.
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