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xienzelast Tuesday at 10:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

This seems like a tremendous amount of planning, babysitting, verification, and token cost just to avoid writing code and tests yourself.


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habinerolast Tuesday at 10:34 PM

It's assigning yourself the literal worst parts of the job - writing specs, docs, tests and reading someone else's code.

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gedylast Wednesday at 12:03 AM

Yes with the reward of: I don't understand this code and didn't learn anything incrementally about the feature I "planned".

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duskdozerlast Wednesday at 9:00 AM

It just seems totally crazy to me, I don't understand how wrestling with this slot machine is even mentally easier