Reading Code Is Not Just a Bottleneck

Recently I listened to a debate — a senior engineer shared a thought experiment: if your agents ship code 10 times in a row and you have nothing to add each time, is checking the 11th superstitious? If that is the case, reading code has become a bottleneck and a waste of engineers' precious time. Huh? During the same debate another engineer disagreed saying that big labs keep humans on critical paths because they need someone who understands the specific component and architecture when it breaks. Let's start from the beginning. Reading Code Had Two Jobs Reading code used to serve a dual purpose: 1) catch bugs and 2) help you build a mental map of the solution. Since it was all part of the same process, no one thought of separating the two. Read the full post

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