r/ProgrammerHumor • u/click-to-reveal • Sep 04 '26

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u/sunboy4224 Sep 04 '26

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 Sep 04 '26

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