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digitaltrees 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel ...

But you wouldn’t argue that a 30k line file is good code would you?

Humans write bad code to. For me the litmus test is: will someone read this in the future. If yes, then write good code.

I don’t think we are in the era when a human will never read the code again in human history. So we should still strive for human intelligibility.

cjbgkagh 3 months ago [–]

The code I write is good. I don’t write for the lowest common denominator, readers need to be hard core functional programmers as a pre-req.

The great thing about AI is that it’s raising the bar on lowest common denominator.

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