On: Software engineering is a learning process, workin...

[myWindoonn]

I make a living selling working code, but I agree. I think that, just like how monitoring needs to run at higher priority than actual production workloads, the understanding of programmers needs to be at a higher level than the understanding which is actually encoded in the actual production program.

[xiphias2 → myWindoonn]

I agree as well, and the real test of understanding comes if I forget to create a backup and lose my program.

Rewriting the same thing from memory when I already know how to structure the program is boring but fast.