What’s the biggest waste of time for a programmer? Working without understanding the bigger picture. You can spend hours fixing a bug, but if you understood the system from the start… you’d save half that time. Code is part of the story… but understanding is the whole story. #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #Developers #Tech #SystemThinking #Coding
Fixing bugs vs Understanding the System
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