<![CDATA[Building the thing that fixes the thing - I understand the problem pretty well and can pat myself on the back for figuring a thing out]]>Building the thing that fixes the thing - I understand the problem pretty well and can pat myself on the back for figuring a thing out.
HAPPY-BRAIN-CHEMICALS = TRUE

Slop together some code, I don't really understand what's going on, and kinda nervous about it all. Trying to figure it out well enough to review it, fix the bugs it slopped in there, eventually give up, cross your fingers, click submit.
HAPPY-BRAIN-CHEMICALS = FALSE

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Yeah, exactly. I'm a programmer partly because programming is fun and makes me happy.

Slop fondling automates the fun part and leaves me doing the slog work of reviewing and debugging code I didn't write.

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