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    11 hours ago

    It was established decades ago that

    It’s harder to read code than to write it.

    • Joel Spolsky

    and

    Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

    • Brian Kernighan

    Having lots of code appear out of thin air isn’t really if any help in making functional systems.