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When I see this: "One of the longest-standing misconceptions about software development is that writing code is the difficult part of the job. It never was." I
by sega_sai 7mo ago
When I see this: "One of the longest-standing misconceptions about software development is that writing code is the difficult part of the job. It never was."
I don't think I can take this seriously.
Sure, 'writing code' is not the difficult often, but when you have time constraints, 'writing code' becomes a limiting factor. And we all do not have infinite time in our hands.
So AI not only enables something you just could not afford doing in the past, but it also allows to spend more time of 'engineering', or even try multiple approaches, which would have been impossible before.
- anilakar 7mo agoAgree. Writing code has always been the most time-consuming part that distracts me from actual design. AI just emphasizes the fact that anyone can do the keyboard mashing while reading code is the actual skill that matters. Give a woodcutter a chainsaw instead of an axe and he'll fell ten times more trees. He'll also likely cause more than ten times the collateral damage.
- staticassertion 7mo agoIt's hard to reconcile "I don't think I can take this seriously" followed by an immediate admission that you agree but that there's some nuance. I think the author's post is far more nuanced that this one sentence that you apparently agree with fundamentally.