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sudahtigabulan | 4 months ago

The 2 minutes wasted to write it doesn't move the needle, but the time that their present and future teammates will waste on reading it might.

It costs me more effort to read and understand a screenful of unfamiliar code than the equivalent "sort -k 1.1" or "uniq" while skimming through a shell script. This adds up.

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rs186|4 months ago

Assuming teammates are all experts at linux commands. Fact: not everyone knows what "sort | uniq -c" does or can type it out on demand. Actually I'll be surprised if more than 25% of all software engineers can do that . If you don't believe me, ask random people inside and outside your company.

> It costs me more effort to read and understand ...

You don't need to. LLMs are meant for that. You probably will roll your own script anyway and none of this matters.

You are worrying about things that, in my experience, do not make any noticeable impact on overall productivity.