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johngladtj04/28/20251 replyview on HN

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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bluefirebrand04/28/2025

This isn't some arbitrary purity test

There is more to "providing value" than simply producing working code

Does it have known security exploits built in that you have no idea about because you couldn't be bothered to read documentation?

Is the "value" you provided extremely temporary because someone is going to come along and exploit your shitty LLM generated code to steal all of your client's customer data?

Software Engineering isn't just about writing code it is about understanding what you're building because if you don't, other people will exploit that