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I would absolutely agree, for any interesting programming problem. Certainly, the kind of programming I enjoy requires lots of thought and planning.

That said, don't underestimate how much boilerplate code is produced. Yet another webshop, yet another forum, yet another customization of that ERP or CRM system. Crank it out, fast and cheap.

Maybe that's the difference between "coding" and "programming"?

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> Maybe that's the difference between "coding" and "programming"?

I know I'm not alone in using these terms to distinguish between each mode of my own work. There is overlap, but coding is typing, remembering names, syntax, etc. whereas programming is design or "mostly thinking".

I usually think of coding and programming as fairly interchangeable words (vs “developing”, which I think encapsulates both the design/thinking and typing/coding aspects of the process better)

Implementing known solutions is less thinking and more typing, but on the other hand it feels like CoPilot and so on is changing that. If you have something straightforward to build, you know the broad strokes of how it's going to come together, the actual output of the code is so greatly accelerated now that whatever thinking is left takes a proportionally higher chunk of time.

... and "whatever is left" is the thinking and planning side of things, which even in its diminished role in implementing a known solution, still comes into play every once in a while.

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