alt Hacker News > I do read the code, but reviewing code is very different from producing it, and surely teaches you less. If you don’t believe this, I doubt you work in software.
If I am fixing bugs in my own (mostly self-education) programs, I read my program several times, over and over again. If writing programs taught me something, it is how to read programs most effectively. And also how to write programs to be most effectively read.
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dongguanxianhao • today at 5:38 PM
>hundredths of them
Man, it would rule so much if programmers were literate and knew how to actually communicate what they intend to say.
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> If I am fixing bugs in my own (mostly self-education) programs, I read my program several times
I think here lies the difference OP is talking about. You are reading your own code, which means you had to first put in the effort to write it. If you use LLMs, you are reading code you didn't write.