I’ve been debating a lot of people on that last point.

A lot of anti slop professors want to bring the debate back around to the mechanical process of coding. I think that’s misguided.

To me, building software is about understanding the users’ needs, knowing what UI patterns work well, how to integrate into the larger platform ecosystem, and ultimately, solving the problems the users have.

Making it about debugging arcane, temporary idiosyncrasies in the platform, 3rd party tools etc is like telling writers they should typeset their own book on a printing press.