A woodworker is paid to work with wood. But the finished product is the worked wood, not a detailed summary of how the wood was worked with.
replyNo, you are paid to deliver. Whether you do that by thinking + hand-coding or just vibe-coding, or handing the task description to Cthulhu and waiting for him to materialize the solution on your disk, is immaterial.
replyUnless of course you also have to explain your thinking and problem-solving process in meetings, which happens quite a lot the more senior you get.
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replyNo I'm paid to write code.
replyNo, you are paid to provide solutions for your customers.
replyDoes that... Not imply thinking avout what you are writing???
replyEveryone probably has thought "what was the person thinking when they wrote this". Now you know that they probably didn't think (and since 2025 or so, it might not even have been a person).
replyand you can do that without thinking?
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