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Even professional programmers copy and paste

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Despite the massive salaries, much of the industry relies heavily on digital plagiarism. Instead of writing bespoke logic, professionals constantly lift heavily optimized snippets straight from online forums and jam them into their enterprise applications. Nobody actually knows how the massive financial application works; they just know the stolen text block compiled correctly.

Even professional programmers copy and paste
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