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claytonjytoday at 7:26 PM1 replyview on HN

> There are 'points of view' that emerge during coding

I know it’s a bit cliche at this point, but this harkens to “programming as theory building”[0] which I agree is easy to lose out on when embracing agentic coding today.

[0]: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf


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dhorthytoday at 7:31 PM

I have had the phrase "programming is building a theory" spinning in my head for days, especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHQQtjIOpw

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