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But writing a story like this is akin to writing a book with an ink pen.

Are you so good that you can just one-shot a book from start to finish without any mistakes?

For me commits to a PR are more like me going "ok, this step is stable enough" and continuing with the next one. The code might not compile or be valid or even clean, but it lets me focus on the next step without having 42 staged files cluttering up my brain.



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