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whynotminotyesterday at 11:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yeah. Everyone sort of assumes that not having personally written the code means they can’t debug it.

When is the last time you had an on call blow up that was actually your code?

Not that I’m some savant of code writing — but for me, pretty much never. It’s always something I’ve never touched that blows up on my Saturday night when I’m on call. Turns out it doesn’t really change much if it’s Sam who wrote it … or Claude.


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geeteetoday at 12:34 AM

"hey coworker, I know your team wrote this, can you help?" Except there is no coworker, just Claude

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croestoday at 12:25 AM

The problem is you lose abilities if stop writing code completely.

There is a difference between a lector and an author