<p>If you include colleagues' code, logs and CI pipeline output, open-source software, books, courses, tutorials, examples, videos, live streams, meetup and conference talks and blog posts (just to think of some), you definitely read more code than you write.</p>
<p>Which is why it's important to <a href="/daily/2024/08/06/computers-dont-care">optimise for readability</a>.</p>
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<p>Which do you do more?</p>
<p>Read code or write code?</p>
<p>If you include colleagues' code, logs and CI pipeline output, open-source software, books, courses, tutorials, examples, videos, live streams, meetup and conference talks and blog posts (just to think of some), you definitely read more code than you write.</p>