I really don't understand this meme. As a longtime professional programmer I regularly go back and review code I wrote last month, last year and last decade; in order to find things I did wrong and learn from things I did right. Sometimes I do get the revelation of "oh, how much I've learned since then", but that's most often very far in the past and seldomly that I'd be ashamed of writing the same code again now, mostly just a welcome realization that I've been able to learn and improve since then.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

I can look at old code that I wrote and feel good about the growth I've made.

I also can look at old code I wrote, which I need to understand/update, and be really annoyed at my past self.

How annoyed I am is entirely based on what I need to do to the code right now. The fact is, it's way easier to be annoyed at myself than annoyed at other people.

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