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nancyminusonelast Friday at 8:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Remains to be seen if that pill needs swallowing at all. At least for reading code.


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eikenberrylast Friday at 8:30 PM

If one is not writing code your ability to read code will degrade quickly and be reduced to a basic sanity check as to whether you need to add more constraints (prompts, tests, etc.). Anyone who thinks they can read code without writing code at a level needed to understand what is going on (for anything non-trivial) is fooling themselves.

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