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“It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand.” — Peter Naur

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“It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand.” — Peter Naur
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Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 06:51:10 JST Ruth — of systems & design
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And even if via LLMs we have convenient access to
all the code...
and tests
and ADRS
and product design and strategy documents
and whatever else is written down...
we have assistance (we hold in more or less suspension of (dis)belief), but
we still have
well, what Peter Naur said:
https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf

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