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effed3today at 4:36 PM0 repliesview on HN

what is -coding-? only typing down some code? the hard part is always the design part, reading doc, reading other code, understanding the sum of the parts, making choices, until the code to write is (quite) -obvious-.

Probably is a question of terms: there is two things: -design- and -coding- (but could be anything as: building, drilling, turning, traveling..) so to make things without a good design is the regal way to problems, many times is a problem left by others, and in a world more and more complex and fast-changing can only be more and more worst. Hard to say what part is really the hardest, but starting with a bad design is no good.

And now probably LLM will solve some problems, but for sure these tech will create more and more new ones.

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf