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Last week I wrote a post that was ostensibly about the direction of IDEs and AI-assisted coding... and one specific sentence (reasonably) generated a lot of discussion.

The line that got the discussion going was, “I don’t read the code anymore.”

I thought a lot about these arguments, and I still don’t read the code. Here, I defend that. Have at it!

Here's the previous post that generated the hubbub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891131

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