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monocasa • today at 7:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The point of style guides is to optimize for readability despite a cognitively diverse workforce coding in the same repos.

I would think they're probably even more meaningful in an agentic world.

Shitty generals can't review meaningfully review the work of their troops.

On top of that all, I just enjoy programming itself. It's less and less of the meat of a software job over time, but I was coding before I got paid for it, and I'll probably keep coding well after I can get paid for it.


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mkagenius • today at 8:11 PM

> Shitty generals can't review meaningfully review the work of their troops.

Except that reviewing has become just asking your agent what that piece of code does in english. Reading code has a bit of cognitive load, that we will probably drop it in coming years