As much as I'd love to believe it, it is now a conservative take. Sure, having a solid architecture in mind still matters right now, but manually writing code is completely unnecessary and, before long, even designing the architecture is going to be completely automated.
I’m taking this view now as well. If you’re reading code, you’re probably doing it wrong. You should absolutely be setting criteria that can be objectively measured and rejecting code that doesn’t meet those criteria or perform as specified. We are all senior software engineering managers now, with a fleet of cheap and ambitious young engineers doing all the authoring.
But reading code? What does that accomplish, other than to slow your dev process down enormously? Serious question.
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ttul · · focus · HN ↗
But reading code? What does that accomplish, other than to slow your dev process down enormously? Serious question.
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