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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> Many coders simply do not care about the business or customers part.
These coders may exist, but they are in my experience not that common. Most coders do care about the business or customers part, but think very differently about these aspects than business people, and thus come to very different conclusions how to handle these topics.
In my experience, it's rather exactly these programmers who are often in conflict with business people
- because they care about such topics
- because they come to different conclusions than the business people, and
- because these programmers care so much about these business-related topics, they are very vocal and sometimes confrontative with their opinions.
In other words: coders who barely care about these business-related aspects are often much easier to handle for business-minded people.