Add blog post: Writing code was hard, actually#272
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New technical blog post arguing against the revisionist narrative that writing code was never the hard part, now that AI is making it cheaper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Every few days, someone important posts a version of "writing code was never the hard part." Engineers are describing changes in plain English and Claude Code writes the code. Non-technical people are building real products without touching a line of code. The hard part, we're told, was always understanding what to build, not building it. Understanding requirements, designing systems, communicating with stakeholders. The code? That was the easy bit. |
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who are the "important" people saying "writing code was never the hard part"? not everyone might be so plugged in :)
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Its a popular topic in engineer circles. Its on the front page right now. I post a reply to the top comment saying the position is opposite. many reading the comments clicks through. stuff on front page gets syndicated by all the HN viewer client web apps, some AI summaries reporting on mix of comments, then you get a long tail of links pointing to your site.
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