John_Maxwell_IV comments on Maximizing Your Donations via a Job - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 May 2013 08:34:09AM 3 points [-]

My experience is that writing bug-free code typically takes up additional time in other ways.

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.