My buddy the senior dev told me to stop overthinking and just copy paste sometimes

I was stuck on a regex pattern for like 2 hours yesterday and nearly tossed my laptop. Called up my friend Mike who's been coding for 12 years and he straight up said "dude just grab a snippet from Stack Overflow and tweak it, nobody's grading you on originality." It hit different because I always felt like copying code was cheating or whatever. But he's right, even pros reuse stuff all the time. Now I spend 20 minutes max on a problem before I go looking for a working example. Has anyone else felt guilty about not writing everything from scratch?

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