Alex, the Hearth Fire (wizardofdocs@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 02:31:16 JST

@inthehands @futurebird @snacktraces this is a thing I had to learn the hard way in undergrad computer science

I'd come from a liberal arts background where looking up the answers was cheating

I still feel bad using other people's code, even though I hate programming, because everybody's going to know I don't understand what I'm doing.

When the truth is that being able to synthesize other people's code to do what you want is how you prove you do know what you're doing.