"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
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The dismissive take that 'coding is easy, it's figuring out what to build that's hard' undersells both sides of software development. High salaries, burnout, legendary programmers, and notoriously buggy software all contradict that claim. The real argument is that both deep technical craft and genuine user understanding matter — and thriving through the AI revolution means embracing both, not retreating into cope.
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