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To give you a vignette in my job - I am right now debugging a piece of open source code that had some auth changes at sometime in the last several months with no changes in the docs to suggest a config change is needed. I have to figure out how 3-4 different frameworks are resulting in this not working.

If my boss messaged me right now and handed me something that required a similar data structure change, I'd stumble on it for about an hour or two until I understood that actual problem.

I'm sure I could "invert" a binary tree if I had to but it'd probably take a far more than reasonable time as that just isn't something I'm dealing with nor most rank and file devs.



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