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Code like Hemingway

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According to the Adafruit Blog, software developers may soon embrace a writing principle borrowed from Ernest Hemingway: brevity. AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex respond best to concise, natural language prompts written in Markdown—a shift from the era of formal unit tests and lengthy specifications written primarily for human readers. The lesson: less is more, and precision beats volume.

Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/06/23/code-like-hemingway/

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