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I don’t agree that writing code is the easy part. Making changes to and maintaining a huge code base is no joke.

• shados 5y ago
  That kind of makes the point. Writing the code is the easy part. Designing a system that's easy to maintain is hard. But a lot of that is decided before you write your first line.
• IncRnd 5y ago
  That's a perfect example! There is such a huge code case, because writing the code was easy to do.
• habibur 5y ago
  Good point. AI not only has to write the code, but also has to understand what existing code does, and then change it on request. If it doesn't understand its own code -- some human has to do that stuff. And maintenance is 90% of the work.
• gregjor 5y ago
  It’s no joke, but writing the code is not the hard part. Reading the code, understanding it, thinking through the states and control flow — those are the hard parts of software maintenance. I do it for a living. 80% of my billable time is reading and testing code. Once I know what to write I’ve got to the easy part.