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by oblio 376 days ago
Are you, though? Reading code is harder, potentially much harder.[1]

And I suspect the act of writing it yourself imparts some lower level knowledge you don't get by skimming the output of an AI.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/26/reading-code-is-li...

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I think he is specifically referring to boilerplate code. It is not hard to understand boilerplate code.