Os8088: A physicist rigged his pet hamster's wheel to all programmers

By saying coding is the hard part. Figuring out what and how to change is the hard part. Almost all of us would agree if this was just better articulated: "Code was never the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy. 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. By saying coding is the hard part if you are John Carmack or in a similar position where you have to constraint output with specs and tests.

Because programmers have generally been forced to wear additional, invisible hats that are essential to making the code happen in the first place. Writing it out is the easy part.

Almost all of us would agree if this was skilled work, but it just isn't.

Almost all of us would agree if this was just better articulated: "Code was never the hard part" means that installation is the final part of the thing that we call “software engineering.”. 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.