[simonw]

It wasn't the hard or valuable part of software engineering, but it was a very time-consuming part. That's what's interesting about this new era - the time-consuming-but-easy bit has suddenly stopped being time-consuming.

[habinero]

It's not time consuming. It seemed slow because of all the other important parts of the job. People vastly overestimate how much time SWEs actually spend writing code lol

[rhubarbtree]

Agreed, often see cope from managers along the line of “writing the code was never the bottleneck”. Well, sure felt like it.

[LtWorf]

For most people who can type with more than 2 fingers, thinking what to type is slower than typing it.

[rhubarbtree]

Aha, and AI beats you at both.