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skydhash • yesterday at 12:08 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> I’ve always been more of a product/business person who saw code as a way to get to the end goal.

That’s what code always is. A description on how the computer can help someone faster to the end goal. Devs care a little more about the description, because end goals change and rewriting the whole thing from scratch is costly and time-consuming.

> That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.

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aurareturn • yesterday at 12:38 PM

  I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.
I don't think so. These coders exist everywhere. Plenty of great coders are great at writing the code itself but not at the business aspects. Many coders simply do not care about the business or customers part. To them, the act of coding and producing quality code and the process of writing software is the goal. IE. These people are most likely to decline building a feature that customers and the business desperately need because it might cause the code base to become harder to maintain. These people will also want to refactor more than building new features. In the past, these people had plenty of value. In the era of LLMs, I think these people have less value than business/product oriented devs.
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aleph_minus_one • yesterday at 2:28 PM

> > That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

> I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.

Clarity of thought does not make you a good communicator with respect to communicating with business people. People, for example, say about me that I am really good at communicating to people who are in deep love of research, but when I present arguments of similar clarity to business people, my often somewhat abstract considerations typically go over their heads.