How much do we bend to the will of our tools?

Thorsten Ball · 4 Feb 2020

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Most of the time spent working on software goes to reading, understanding and editing existing code, not writing new code.

Their wordsBecause arguably the majority of our time working on software is not spent writing it: we're reading code, trying to understand it, slightly tweaking and editing it.

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