I was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.
I don't just want the answer, I want to know *how* to get the answer. I want to know why the answer is what it is.
Maybe this is like that whole idea that in school they don't teach kids to think, they teach them to memorize the answer.
Maybe it's the old saying "The journey is the reward" because fuck yeah.
To me just getting the answer handed to me is a shortcut, it's cheating, it's skipping the work that goes into the discovery.
It's making a shitty microwave meal for dinner instead of actually cooking with real ingredients.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕