Illinois just told every operating system to all programmers

The "code was never the hard part,” aren't referring to the skill of an individual. It's not the hard part of being a writer. The "code was never the hard part”. None of these phrases survive context loss and still retain efficacy at general receivers. There's a whole big contentious point that the author took that “Code was never the hard part. It is still an insult though. It's an insult to languages like C.

The "code 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. There's a whole big contentious point that the author took that “Code was never the hard part" folks are right, but I really, really hate straw men.

The author is conflating coding with other parts of coding are easy.

The "code was never the hard part" was an irresponsible coder who perhaps never had to work for Apple. Cool article, thanks for sharing. The truth of that statement depends on what you work, if you optimize algos and low level stuff I think it's cool. I see a lot of people really like talking to chatbots?