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You can still recognise people behind the words. I can usually tell who wrote a particular line of code within the projects I work with.

It is disingenous to pretend that writing software is a pure robotic activity that can be separated from its humanity.

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There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversations on breaks and after work, not disrupting people who are working on the project.

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