private_messaging comments on Maximizing Your Donations via a Job - Less Wrong

109 Post author: Alexei 05 May 2013 11:19PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 08 May 2013 06:02:06PM *  5 points [-]

Yes, nothing comes for free, of course... but it seems to me that with careful coding one can massively decrease bug rate while spending only little extra time. Debuggers make bug finding much easier but not so much faster. Coding carefully also feels very difficult out of proportion how slower it is.