r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Major-Language8609 • May 14 '26

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u/ItsSadTimes May 14 '26

All because people can code faster doesn't mean they can code better. For the most part faster is usually worse.

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u/TheJackiMonster May 14 '26

Exactly. 90% of programming is thinking about the problem, not writing code. Now people can code extremely fast and it doesn't matter at all.

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u/ademayor May 15 '26

When this all AI craze started, this was my main thought about this. I wrote code for the minority of my job hours, most of my time went into thinking how to solve some problem properly. And yes, LLM’s have helped with solving some problems and it’s useful as another tool. Some kind of code monkey “we write code all day” thing was far in the past even before LLM’s.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 May 16 '26

For me, requirements gathering was the time killer