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		oblio 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts Are you, though? Reading code is harder, potentially much harder.[1] And I suspect the act of writing it yourself imparts some lower level knowledge you don't get by skimming the output of an AI. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/26/reading-code-is-li...

KyleBerezin 48 days ago [–]

I think he is specifically referring to boilerplate code. It is not hard to understand boilerplate code.

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