AI coding joke: writing code drops to 1%, debugging rises to 99%
zakelfassi · x · 2026-07-27
A short joke about the AI-era coding workflow: before AI, developers supposedly spent 10% of their time writing code and 90% debugging; after AI, it becomes 1% writing and 99% debugging.
The point is the same: AI may reduce some friction, but debugging remains the hard part, just with a different shape.
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