The prime directive in programming is to read and understand the code the code and tools you are relying on (the hard part). Everyone skips the hard part, and

The prime directive in programming is to read and understand the code the code and tools you are relying on (the hard part). Everyone skips the hard part, and squabbles over whether it's okay or possible to redefine 'high quality' to include code written by people who never did the hard part. Suffering by software's user's is tge inevitable result of this misclassification of the prime directive to be "write" oriented.