alt Hacker News> Code was malleable only to a developer with great code comprehension
This used to be what being a dev was, if I recall. It's been a few years.
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croon • last Tuesday at 9:43 AM
Sure, but it was certainly a difference between those projects you authored and those you inherited, at least in time-to-productiveness.
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I think we romanticise the old days of coding now that agents are doing it.
Regarding the average developer as an imbecile was a cottage industry from Djikstra to FizzBuzz.