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I don't have to look back very far. I can be disgusted in the afternoon by code I wrote in the morning.

When I read own code that is older than a month or so I'm annoyed because that code should have been a lot better from my current perspective.

If this feeling ever stops it means I've stopped learning and stopped personal progress. I'll stop coding that day.

Thankfully it didn't go away for the last 30 years I was programming, so it will probably stay with me a little longer.

I dont think its necessarily skills getting better, but more often than not, it's just seeing a solution differently after your mind took a break from the initial work on it. I've never written code that couldn't be made better and better over time.

Same here, this happens every time I open my code.

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