It's gonna be real annoying to be a programmer once we've invented time travel, what with the future selves showing up all the time demanding answers.

Mainly about what the code does, how it works, why did you do it this way, why is this breaking this way, help me debug it, and so on.

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@foone It's really the other way around. When I start with a project, future me gets back with the finished version. But present me will blame future me for doing such a half-assed job. The thing is, you still have to write the program initially so you can send it to the past, and motivation is really low to do that when you already have the finished product. "Why do I have to do this, it's probably right over there!" (But, if you try to cheat, that's always the stuff missin / never written...)

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