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Comment by throwawee | original | What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

[−]throwawee · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:59 UTC · link

> You learn a lot more by reading code than writing it.

Really? In my experience it's been the opposite. It's like how you can learn more about art by trying to recreate it than just looking.

[−]DoctorOetker · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:41 UTC · link

a lot of people get stuck, or code up a naive brute force algorithm and call it a day, nothing intrinsically forces a coder that refuses to look at the work of others to write better code.