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>most developers can write code a lot faster than they can verify it what? so people just write code and never read it back?
by kajaktum 5y ago
>most developers can write code a lot faster than they can verify it
what? so people just write code and never read it back?
- layla5alive 5y agoVerifying code and reading it aren't the same thing. And yes, most developers don't verify their code as carefully as they should. But also, there are blind spots to verifying your own code because brains take shortcuts. At the same time, there are difficulties verifying other people's code because of different shortcuts brains take. There was a simple function in java standard library which was wrong for years because of this phenomenon. https://dev.to/matheusgomes062/a-bug-was-found-in-java-after-almost-9-years-of-hiding-2d4k https://dev.to/matheusgomes062/a-bug-was-found-in-java-after...