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aurareturnyesterday at 11:34 AM1 replyview on HN

I was a good dev but I did not love the code itself. I loved the outcome. Other devs would have done better on leetcode and they would have produced better code syntax than me.

I’ve always been more of a product/business person who saw code as a way to get to the end goal.

That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

Hence, LLMs have been far better for me in terms of productivity.


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skydhashyesterday at 12:08 PM

> I’ve always been more of a product/business person who saw code as a way to get to the end goal.

That’s what code always is. A description on how the computer can help someone faster to the end goal. Devs care a little more about the description, because end goals change and rewriting the whole thing from scratch is costly and time-consuming.

> That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.

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