CodeByJeffMar 19

As a programmer, I wish I could help people understand that the fastest part of any project is writing the code...

Non-programmers always want to throw more code writers at a project to speed things up. The "Mythical Man Month" problem aside,

the bottlenecks are all the legwork involved in defining the problem, the scope of this particular task, and fully testing it.

Even before AI, writing code was fast and we already have a lot of tools to crank it out...if we're clear on *what* to crank out.

This is prolly true in all fields, this difference in understanding between the people who actually work in a field, and the people who are adjacent to that field.

Show threadTom 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Maurice Wilkes, an early computing pioneer, reflecting on the early days, said, "I remember the exact moment when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

With AI-generated code, programmers give up the creative pleasure and joy of writing code, and multiply the amount of tedious and difficult debugging instead. What a bargain.

Mar 20 at 12:04amWeb
Show threadCodeByJeffMar 20

@tom we also give up a lot of the tedious boilerplate parts of our jobs...

I think it can be argued both ways, depending on how you personally are using it