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bluefirebrandyesterday at 6:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> Reviewing code is still way faster than writing code.

Writing code results in a much better understanding of the code than reviewing it

In fact I would say that in large complex codebases, in order to develop the same understanding of what the code is doing might actually take longer than writing it from scratch would have


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esafaktoday at 3:24 AM

But it's written to your spec; there should be no surprises!

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