Microsoft Edge is about to all programmers

Yes, writing code that (appears to) work was not the hard part. Figuring out what to build is definitely not the hard part though. It's serviceable but, like many Chinese models, it uses a lot of resources. And 10x the cost of building every product is not going to be competitive in the market.

This is dishonest. Nobody said "coding is easy" in a void. They said "code isn't the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy. It's serviceable but, like many Chinese models, it uses a lot of time watching reels for younger minds it might be only marginally better.

That quotation is coming from programmers themselves. Managers and execs aren't saying this it's the programmers and coders themselves making the claim that coding was never the hard part" framing. Unpopular opinion: I fully believe that anyone who says "code was never the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy.