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Their wordsJust like a speed reader consumes text in patterns rather than word by word, a strong manual coding background has trained us to spot algorithmic weaknesses and flaws.
Their wordsInstead, the way forward is most likely to capture experience as enforceable constraints.
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Their wordsMy personal goal is to get better at working with higher-level abstractions, and accept that writing code is likely to be a dying skill.
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