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OptionOfTyesterday at 8:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Correct. Reading code is important. The details are in the minutia, and the way code works is that the minutia are important.

Summarizing this with AI makes you lose that context.


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snsjzhhzyesterday at 8:16 PM

This has been my experience as a dev, and it always confuses me when people say they prefer to work at a “higher level”. The minutiae are often just as important as some of the higher level decisions. Not everything, but not an insignificant portion either. This applies to basic things like correctness, performance, and security - craft, style, and taste are not involved.

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