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Your philosophy is to wing it. That is, don't attack the problem head on, only do the least necessary and give the most half-ass effort possible to solve a problem. Optimize nowhere and create the longest code possible. The whole point of code is to be easiest for the programmer and not optimal for the user and the client. You, the programmer, are the primary beneficiary, the client gets whatever's left of efficiency.
This is what Python/Ruby programmers actually believe.