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With lazy people the same applies for everything, code they do write, or code they review from peers. The issue is not the tooling, but the hands.





I am not a lazy worker but I guarantee you I will not thoroughly read through and review four PRs for the same thing

The more tedious the work is, the less motivation and passion you get for doing it, and the more "lazy" you become.

Laziness does not just come from within, there are situations that promote behaving lazy, and others that don't. Some people are just lazy most of the time, but most people are "lazy" in some scenarios and not in others.


Seurat created beautiful works of art composed of thousands of tiny dots, painted by hand; one might find it meditational with the right mindset.

Some might also find laziness itself dreadfully boring—like all the Microsoft employees code-reviewing AI-Generated pull requests!

https://blog.stackademic.com/my-new-hobby-watching-copilot-s...




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