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It's harder to read code than to write it (especially when AI writes it)

calendar_today December 4, 2025 person Aleks Volochnev domain coderabbit

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix and co-author of The C Programmi….

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