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Re:GitHub Copilot by adkadskhj on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:09PM (#27677914)
I'd say it's more nuanced. Reading code properly _is_ writing code. Ie i have to work through the logic as if i'm writing it, which is effectively writing it in my head, before i know if that's what i believe to be optimal.

I can _just_ read the code of course, and understand what it does - but just reading isn't analyzing it to the degree you do when you review/write the code. In that level of analysis you're looking for edge cases, bugs, etc. Reasons you'd write it differently. Which i suspect is functionally similar, if not identical, to writing it.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by layla5alive on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:09PM (#27678744)
It's pretty much this, but it's harder because if someone else wrote it, there's a level of indirection between how you would have written it and how they did which tends to need a bit of extra mental resolving/processing for correctness.
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