I know this sounds sarcastic but I really mean it: For years everyone has been monastically extolling some variation of "the best code is deleted code". Now, we have a machine that spits out infinite code that we can infinitely delete. It's a blessing that we can have shitty code generated that exposes at light speed how shitty our ideas are and have always been.
replyA nicer framing is original ideas and original thinking in general is very hard and doesn't come around very often.
replySteve Jobs once said a thing about the belief that an idea is 90% of the work is a disease. He is and was absolutely right.
You still need to spend plenty of time verifying they work though unless it’s something where that truly doesn’t matter.
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