| ▲ | AlexCoventry 3 days ago |
| Why is reading code harder than writing it? |
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| ▲ | blackoil 3 days ago | parent [-] |
| I think it has to do with mental model. If you already know what to write and it is reasonably complex you'll have a mental model ready and can quickly write it down (now even faster as LLMs autocomplete 3-4 lines at a time). While reading someone else code you'll have to constantly map the code in your mind with code written and have to then compare quality, security and other issues. |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, it's exactly this. Having to create a mental model from the code is much harder than having one and just writing it out. | | |
| ▲ | AlexCoventry 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I just tend to find LLM code output extremely to read, I guess. It tends to be verbose and do a lot of unnecessary stuff, but I can always get the point easily and edit accordingly. |
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| ▲ | theshrike79 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'd say just reading your own code from a few years back will be as hard as reading someone else's. |
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