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I genuinely applaud your insufficient workarounds for legitimate security protections and I say this as respectfully as possible: This is an extremely dumb use case and I can't imagine anyone would want it.


I appreciate the sentiment, but "There is no stupid code" is the dumbest sentence I've ever read.


Maybe you don't read much, but it's obvious they weren't making some universal statement about code. They are referring to the code you write when you are just experimenting by yourself, for yourself. The point is to not let irrelevant things like usefulness, quality, conventions, etc. limit just tinkering and learning.


Stupid code is fine. Make it work/exist first, you can make it good later.


Yeah, I think he’s trying to equate it to something like “there are no stupid questions.” That’s a pretty silly analogy, but you get the idea.


when you're paralyzed into not putting anything on the page, it's important to just get the dumb idea onto the IDE and refactor from there.


I think the people who think there is no stupid code don't actually ever witness truly bad code. The worst code that they come across is, at worst, below average. And since that's the worst they see, it gets mentally defined as bad.


That’s a charitable interpretation. The other more pessimistic one is that they only see stupid code, which cannot be made any stupider.


I think that's basically an impossibility, unless the only code they look at is from people who have 5 minutes of coding experience and attempt to get working code from vibes (without the LLM). Even suggesting this makes me think you haven't even seen truly stupid code.

I'm talking code from people with no programming experience, trying to contribute to open-source mod projects by pattern matching words they see in the file. They see the keyword static a lot, so they just put static on random things.


He will counter with "There are no stupid sentences"!


True enough, and given that no company under 1000 headcount bothers to verify bachelor's degrees, OP should just lie to get through the initial filter.


Funnily enough, I tried wording my Berkeley Bootcamp a little differently on my resume to be a little more ambiguous at one point in time. I got called out on that pretty quick. Not my a company, but by someone I had review it.


It's crazy. You'd think business would be dominated by people on such incredibly high levels of cognition.


Neither I nor anyone I have ever worked with would hire an engineer with this perspective.

I would also caution you against making a statement like, "I have truly learned programming" after four years of experience.

Best of luck, but if your goal is to find a programming job quickly, I would not recommend being as forthcoming as you've been here in an interview.


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