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varispeedyesterday at 6:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

The least experienced developer writes the most code. Juniors would be spending whole day in the IDE, typing, testing, typing etc. Senior developers will go to a park for a few hours, think, then come back spent an hour or less typing code that just works or write nothing at all, maybe even delete code. Instead they might update documents, ask clarifications about found edge cases or errors in planning that were not considered.


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nomelyesterday at 6:48 PM

Since software is in every industry of man, I think you'll need to mention which industry this perspective is coming from. This is definitely NOT the case in certain industries.

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sefrostyesterday at 10:22 PM

I don’t know if that’s true for most of us, who simply work in CRUD apps. Maybe I’m in a bubble though.