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bluefirebrand04/25/20251 replyview on HN

> Frankly I don't want to spend 2 hours reading documentation just to find out some arcane incantation that gets the computer to do what I want it to do

Then you are just straight up not cut out to be a software developer

The existence of LLMs may reduce the need to slog through documentation, but it will not remove that need


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johngladtj04/28/2025

You're welcome to believe what you will, but the fact is I've written code that serves a purpose and provides value to those businesses, and at the end of the day that's is all that matters, not some arbitrary purity test you just made up.

The purpose of programming is to provide value for people, not to read documents.

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