I tracked my coding time for a month. I only debug 2% of the time

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throwmeaway222 · 1d ago

I feel like in the last 20 years of professional programming, I spend 90% of my time fighting with frameworks the most. Something not working? Spend two days figuring out why. Now days I would rather write an entire form/multi-part parser that works specifically with my use-case instead of fighting another dependency that has API changes all the time.

Maybe with AI we're going to be at a point where all the libraries are locally developed - no need to use someone's framework or library when everything can just be described and code emitted.

Goodbye npm, maven, pip, go mods

al_borland · 1d ago

I’m testing and debugging while I’m creating. These aren’t distinct actions, I’m not sure how the time could be broken down like this in any meaningful way.

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I tracked my coding time for a month. I only debug 2% of the time

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