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Yes. A skill I have not mastered in 20 years. And I’ve yet to meet a person who has. If you are out here writing perfectly looking code 100% of the time that everyone else including you can perfectly understand a year later, then hats off to you.

But in my long career even the smartest most experienced software engineers I’ve met m write their share of crazy abstractions from hell.



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