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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Code and files generated bytools are pollution:hand-writing them is worth… DS Derek Sivers — holds since 2019-10-15 A sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself. A sense of achievementin software survives… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. The case for sweatingevery line of code was… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not. Programmers who lovedthe mechanical act of… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive. Most organisations arebottlenecked on ideas… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. Letting non-programmersvibe-code features into… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 TypeScript's type annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety, and a front-end framework is better off written in plain JavaScript. TypeScript's typeannotations cost more… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2023-09-06 Overly prescriptive instructions make a coding agent worse, for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse. Overly prescriptiveinstructions make a… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications. The complexity of aJavaScript bundling and… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — turned since 2021-08-12
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