• sach@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Most programmers agree debugging can be harder than writing code, so basically the easy part is automated, but the more challenging and interesting parts, architecture and the debugging remain for programmers. Still it’s possible they’ll try to sell it to programmers as less work.

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      3 days ago

      but the more challenging and interesting parts, architecture and the debugging remain for programmers

      And is made harder for them. Because it turns out the “easy” part is not that easy to do correctly, and if not it just makes maintaining the thing miserable.

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        Additionally, as others have said in the thread, programmers learn the skills required for debugging at least partially from writing code. So there goes a big part of the learning curve, turning into a bell curve.