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> Everything a computer can do trivially should not be done by humans.

Agreed, to a point. In many contexts, it is important for humans to do things themselves occasionally in order to learn how, even if a computer is generally used to do those things far more quickly.

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Agreed, computers are generally way better than humans at catching many style issues. We utilize linters extensively, those enforce many of our style guide rules. However, there are some, such as the example pictured in the article, that aren’t always detectable with a linter. In these cases, we use the style guide as the source of truth to reduce the amount of personal preference that comes into code reviews.

Agree, for everything that doesn't go automatically or would be to much effort to automate a single source of truth must be maintained.

I agree with that if you would be learning a language. But even then, being bothered by indenting, alignment, spacing etc gets tiresome and the small amounts of time lost accumulate over the day.

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