Would you be willing to finish a project or creation instantly, in exchange for losing any experience or materials you'd otherwise have doing it the long way? (lemmy.zip)

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If it's a book, you have the manuscript but no research, notes, or prior revisions. If it's a program, you have the compiled binary but no source code or anything you would've learned writing it. Etc.

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

hell no! Im mainly motivated by experience and learning. If you hire me to do some well documented tasks im likely to try little variations and see if something works a bit better. I mean I won't risk safety or anything of course.

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