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Code Is Debt

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1. DavidWoof ◴[] No.45086685[source]
One of the aphorisms I repeat a lot is that in this age where everybody programs a little, including analysts, devops, QA, researchers, etc., the thing that separates all of them from actual software developers is that developers know that "code is bad. Code is where I find all my bugs.

And I do wear these other hats sometimes. I think nothing of scripting a useful utility or cranking something out in R or VBA for a presentation. But when it comes to production code, I'll spend a lot of time trying to think of ways to reduce the amount of code required.

But it's two completely different philosophies regarding code, and unfortunately in some organizations AI is starting to blur the lines.