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only-one170104/23/20252 repliesview on HN

I like writing code more than reading it, personally.


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simonw04/23/2025

Yeah, I think that's pretty common. It took me 15+ years of my own career before I got over my aversion to spending significant amounts of time reading through code that I didn't write myself.

pdimitar04/24/2025

We all do. But more often than not we have to learn to do surgical incisions in order to do our task for the day. It's what truly distinguishes a professional.