alt Hacker NewsIt wasn't the hard or valuable part of software engineering, but it was a very time-consuming part. That's what's interesting about this new era - the time-consuming-but-easy bit has suddenly stopped being time-consuming.
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rhubarbtree • last Monday at 6:19 PM
Agreed, often see cope from managers along the line of “writing the code was never the bottleneck”. Well, sure felt like it.
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It's not time consuming. It seemed slow because of all the other important parts of the job. People vastly overestimate how much time SWEs actually spend writing code lol