The material that teaches people how to program is overwhelmingly bad, because the programmers who know how to do it well rarely think it is worth writing down.

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• The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed. CMCasey Muratori28 Feb 2023
• Dismissing a subject as a waste of time because you never used its details on the job is the wrong way to think, and it is the same mistake people make about learning to code now that AI writes the loops. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026
• Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer. CMCasey Muratori26 Aug 2026
• Students who learn everything through an LLM are not learning, they are cheating, and the skill loss is already showing up in experienced programmers too. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026
• Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025

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