Stop Writing Code for Machines (Start Writing for Humans)

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Here is a hard truth I learned the hard way: your computer doesn't care how clever your code is, but your teammates definitely do. Early in my career, I thought writing hyper-optimized, one-line LINQ queries or complex nested ternaries made me a '10x developer. ' In reality, it just meant nobody else wanted to touch my code, and six months later, neither did I. Code is read far more often than it is written—make readability your top metric.

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