| ▲ | CodeMage 3 hours ago | |
> Which goes on to prove that bottleneck isn't in writing the code. It is in reading and understanding the code. The people AI evangelists often say "typing" instead of "writing code", because they don't really understand -- or it's not lucrative for them to acknowledge -- what makes writing code hard. We don't just write code to be executed by machines, we also write it to be read by humans. Code reviews, debugging, future changes -- all of these things involve reading and understanding the code someone wrote. And until we have an AI that we can actually hold responsible for its actions, we can't delegate the understanding to it. | ||