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0 pointssarchertech9mo ago0 comments

You think Joel is an amateur? And the scores of other professional engineers who have written about this are also amateurs?

I mean they could be wrong, but I don’t think you can call them amateurs.

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simonw9mo ago

I think Joel is a professional, and that's why he says "reading code is harder than writing code".

You seem to be misunderstanding me. I'm not saying "anyone who thinks reading code is harder than writing code is an amateur". I'm saying "reading code IS harder than writing code, which is why being good at reading code is what separates experienced programmers from beginners."

sarchertechOP9mo ago

Ok so you disagree with the person that kicked this off with

“Reading code is vastly quicker than writing it from scratch”

simonw9mo ago

Only if you're not very good at reading code. If you've invested a lot of effort in improving your code reading and code review skills you can work a lot more productively with LLMs than people who don't have good code reading skills.

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0 pointssarchertech9mo ago0 comments

You think Joel is an amateur? And the scores of other professional engineers who have written about this are also amateurs?

I mean they could be wrong, but I don’t think you can call them amateurs.

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simonw9mo ago

I think Joel is a professional, and that's why he says "reading code is harder than writing code".

sarchertechOP9mo ago

Ok so you disagree with the person that kicked this off with

“Reading code is vastly quicker than writing it from scratch”

simonw9mo ago

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