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by pbw 528 days ago
I always heard it as "software development is an exercise in knowledge acquisition."
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The best programmers eventually become experts in a problem domain they’ve worked on, because to teach a computer to automate a process well requires thinking like an expert and resolving incoherences. Weak programmers complain stakeholders don’t know what they want or that there’s no spec; I have a hunch these are going to be replaced by AI.