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'"Code Was Never the Hard Part" Is an Insult to All Programmers' Hits 783 Points and 461 Comments — the Backlash to the Backlash Against Coding Skill
Senko Rašić's post arguing that the now-standard line 'LLMs are good at coding, but coding was never the hard part' is a gross insult to programmers drew 783 points and 461 comments on HN — the day's largest thread. His challenge: if coding is easy, explain the salaries and the existence of Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer, and SICP. The top-voted reply (prinny_) defends the original claim on requirements and org politics; a large counter-camp lands on 'writing code is not hard, writing correct code is,' citing Healthcare.gov, Friendster, and the $480M Knight-style trading bug, and separates 'coding' as transcription from 'programming' as problem-solving.
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