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I'm very much someone who needs to write things to understand them.

Trying to figure out some new API that gives gross error messages and has zero useful documentation? I start writing down what I _think_ things do.

This helps me find patterns, but also helps me say "there's no way that is what this does. No one would write a function for that, it must do something else."



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