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		jetsetk 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude 4 Why would coding be that unwanted task if one decided to work as a programmer? People's unwanted tasks are cleaning the house, doing taxes etc.

atonse 10 days ago [–]

But the value in coding (for the overwhelming majority of the people) is the product of coding (the actual software), not the code itself.

So to most people, the code itself doesn't matter (and never will). It's what it lets them actually do in the real world.

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