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sneak on June 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work ...

It’s harder to read code than it is to write it, that’s true.

But it’s also faster to read code than to write it. And it’s faster to loop a prompt back to fixed code to re-review than to write it.

AlotOfReading on June 17, 2025 [–]

I've written plenty of code that's much faster to write than to read. Most dense, concise code will require a lot more time building a mental model to read than it took to turn that mental model into code in the first place.

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