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Doodling...
intransitive verb
Definition
- 1
intransitive verb
Making small, unplanned marks that turn out, on inspection, to have been thinking.
- 2
intransitive verb
Of draft code: writing a little, throwing it away, and keeping what it taught.
Example
“Doodling a prototype.”— Claude Code, in the margins