rauchg: In the AI era, understanding 'debounce' matters more than writing it
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-24
Guillermo Rauch quotes emilkowalski's five-year-old question "can you write a debounce function?" and notes it has evolved into "do you understand debounce as a concept" — in the AI-assisted coding era, vocabulary and the ability to navigate conceptual space now matter more than writing the code yourself.
Shivam Bhadani pushes back: theory gives you the broad picture, but implementing things yourself exposes edge cases, hidden complexities, and details theory alone can never reveal. A genuine clash over whether hands-on coding still matters in the AI era.
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