deechFascinating to watch industry getting a crash course in one of the fundamental asymmetries in software, that reading code is 10x harder than producing it.
David Beazley@deech And didn't everyone go into this field to avoid reading books?
Howard Chu @ SymasStrange that so many people fail to understand that the most important skill in programming is reading, not writing. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/114082711366819790
With genAI, both are completely outsourced to LLMs...
Daniel Esik@deech by the way, they already solved this — they ship code they don't read, as the "creator of clawd" proposes.
Rémi Cardona@deech 25 years ago, my CS101 prof told the class:
"Debugging/reading code is 3x harder than writing code. Thus, if you write the cleverest code you can, you are by definition not smart enough to debug it.
Write dumb code."
He wasn't my favorite prof, but this is a genuine nugget of wisdom.