Hacker News argues over whether writing code was ever the hard part

Sources: post, discussion
Summary: A blog post arguing that the phrase "code was never the hard part" understates programming work drew the day's largest Hacker News thread by a wide margin. The technical content sits in the comments rather than in the post.
Comments: HN commenters separate design work and code comprehension from typing, and repeatedly place debugging as the part that stays hard regardless of what produces the code.
Why it matters: The disagreement is about which parts of the job an agentic coding tool removes, which is the question a team answers when it decides how far to let one run.