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It's not even that, it's also the iceberg effect of all our personal knowledge-bases; I'd rather experiment on my machine figuring out how I want to do something rather than read endless documentation.

Documentation is a good starter/unblocker but once I've got the basics down then I'll run wild in a REPL or something figuring out exactly how I want to do something.

Pure thinking planning is a good way to end up with all sorts of things that weren't factored in, imo. We should always encourage play during the planning process.




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