Kernighan on Programming
Summary
The Hacker News discussion centers on Kernighan's quote about debugging being harder than writing code, noting that debugging will dominate development time in the era of AI/LLMs. It highlights testing, property-based testing, types, and model checking as ways to improve correctness, and points to Kernighan as a source of insightful programming quotes with a linked breakdown of Kernighan's Lever.