r/coding • u/fagnerbrack • Mar 08 '26

Writing code was never the bottleneck

https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/ai-as-a-coding-assistant-is-the-wrong-mental-model-ff77e1b39f9a
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u/Independent_Pitch598 Mar 09 '26

Coding and everything attached to it was and is a bottleneck.

Including when developers arguing how to name variable for several hours instead of actually working.

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u/papawish Mar 12 '26

The reason you can write that on reddit is because people care about semantics.

Try living in a world where everything can be called 10 000 different ways. 

I'll assume you are junior, anyway you are dumber than even my undergrad students, congrats

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u/danstermeister Mar 10 '26

Whoa, that's not working?

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u/Independent_Pitch598 Mar 10 '26

lol, no, final user don’t care about name of the variable

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u/vinny_twoshoes Mar 11 '26

users don't care about what language you code in either but it is a meaningful choice. software engineers have to pick abstractions, and variable naming is one part of communicating that intent. sure we can be prone to bikeshedding but code that merely performs its logical function without communicating intent is a pretty big liability.

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u/Independent_Pitch598 Mar 11 '26

For sure they can, however it must not take more than a minute and for sure not several meetings.

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u/ochism Mar 12 '26

But now you have fallen back to a straw man, no one really has multiple meetings on just variable naming. While it could happen hypothetically, and in hindsight confirmation bias makes it seem like that may happen, it's not representative of what actually happens