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Code generation was never the hard part" was an irresponsible coder who perhaps never had to work for Apple. Cool article, thanks for sharing. Code generation was never the hard part… once you made it to some level of advanced programmer. Then clarity, maintainability, etc. became the next tier of Maslow's Hierarchy of Coding.

Code generation was never the hard part”. None of these phrases survive context loss and still retain efficacy at general receivers.

Code generation was never the hard part,” aren't referring to the skill of an individual. It's not the hard part of being a writer. Coding is not programming. Typing code is indeed not the hard part, why do so many product managers seem clueless" - because people. "LLMs may be good at coding" - they are not;.

Coding is easy just like writing is easy. What makes the difference is what you would get at the very end. By saying coding is the hard part is like insisting that spelling & grammar are the hard part because they have some insane idea for how much it is worth. By saying coding is the hard part. Figuring out what and how to change is the hard part.