Writing Code May Be Dead (Not Really), But Reading Code Will Live On

Jason Gorman:

I recommend […] slowing down code generation to the speed of comprehension. When you’re drinking from a firehose, the limit isn’t the firehose.

This implies that we’re not limited by how many tokens/second “AI” coding assistants can predict, but by how many tokens/second we can understand. That’s the thing we need to optimise.

And what’s the best way to understand code?

To write it.

Repeatedly.