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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
(blog.senko.net)
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2026
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Writing code was never more than 20% of what I do as a programmer. All those other things are where I have always spent me time, and those are the hard part.
And to me the least fun. Programming is the fun part, everything else is stuff I have to deal with to do the fun part.
All of it has parts I hate there is a lot of boring code I've had to work on. And sometimes the fun code is things I finish and say nobody should every do that...
Then look at it again in a year and go, "Who wrote this?!" Do a git blame then go, "Oh, why did I do this?"