[fearthetelomere]

I often synthesize this as: to write, is to think.

It derives from David McCullough's quote, "Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

In order to arrange the right words in the right sequence to convey the right message, you're required to organize your thinking, and also consider how it might be consumed.

To bring it back home, I suppose the same could be said of writing code.

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As an aside, McCullough wrote my favorite biography, John Adams.

[slowmovintarget]

Came back from the article to post his quote, and here it is. Moving knowledge outside yourself crystallizes that knowledge. It makes me wonder what happens when LLMs strip that away for most people.