Comment by MontyCarloHall

It will certainly be the default for cases where it's easier to read code than to write code, but this is far from universally true. AFAIK, Joel Spolsky was the first to discuss this at length 25 years ago [0], but numerous people have echoed his sentiment [1, 2, 3, ...]

One of the most underrated skills in effectively using gen-AI for coding is knowing ahead of time whether it will take longer to carefully review the code it produces, versus writing it from scratch yourself.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[1] https://mattrickard.com/its-hard-to-read-code-than-write-it

[2] https://trishagee.com/presentations/reading_code/

[3] https://idiallo.com/blog/writing-code-is-easy-reading-is-har...

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