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Showerthought: I think we rely too much on the 'undo' button now
Had a project last week where my main workstation crashed, and the auto-save file got corrupted. I lost about four hours of detailed work on a set of foundation plans. Everyone says to just trust the software and hit 'undo' or rely on backups, but that's not always a real fix. I had to rebuild everything from my paper sketches, which actually made me catch two small errors I'd missed the first time. It felt like a step back, but it made the final drawings better. Maybe we're getting lazy letting the software think for us. Has anyone else had a crash force them to do a manual re-draw and found it wasn't all bad?
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tyler61mo ago
Software crashes are just bad luck, not some deep lesson. Relying on undo and auto-save is just using the tools we have. Rebuilding from paper sounds like a huge waste of time to me. The goal is to finish the work, not make it harder on purpose. Those errors probably would have been caught in review anyway. Calling it laziness is a stretch.
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alice_palmer2018d ago
Manual redraws are just a way to justify bad software habits. You got lucky catching errors, but usually it's just wasted time that could've been spent moving forward.
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