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These are the kind of people that create two letter aliases to avoid typing “git pull” or whatever. Congrats, very efficient, saving 10 seconds per day.

So, yeah, they probably think typing is a huge bottle neck and it’s a huge time saver.



Do you level the same criticism at people who write blogs expressing their enthusiasm for vi keyboard movements or emacs lisp incantations? How about shell improvements and language server based refactor tools?

How about learning to touch type? Clearly code manipulation is not the hard part of writing software so all the people finding efficiency improvements in that tooling and skill set would be better served doing something else with their time? I find it instructive that the evergreen dismissal of one persons enthusiasm as unimportant rarely says what exactly they should be investing in instead.


I don't have that alias myself. But it seems like reasonable alias to have.




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