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 nostr:npub1a4cfqcj5cq9qauuzz33rqq63kudnu6k7x4fe4xep93s7lu5hgk3szqt2kf most time spent and suffering in the whole career is on reading others people's code and understanding what it does, making careful changes to disrupt as little as possible of what already exists so things don't break. Very very rarely does it matter the speed or quality of how it's written. At the end of the day most time is spent understanding the weirdness of the codebase and reviewing PRs.

So yeah, code for reading should be a maximised ideal.