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habinerotoday at 4:05 AM1 replyview on HN

Sure; but I'm not humblebragging at how talented at coding I am. I'm good at it because I have a lot of practice and experience, but I'm hardly the best.

It's the easiest part because the hard parts of the job are everything else -- you're a knowledge worker so people look to you to make decisions and figure it out. You figure it out and make it work for whatever "it" happens to be.


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lelanthrantoday at 5:28 AM

> It's the easiest part because the hard parts of the job are everything else -- you're a knowledge worker so people look to you to make decisions and figure it out. You figure it out and make it work for whatever "it" happens to be.

If you thought coding was easy, wait till you see the competition for knowledge workers. You're in a spot now where the part that made you valuable (implementing business rules in software) can now be done by virtually anyone.

Doing all the non-coding parts (or, as you put it, "the hard parts") can now be done by almost any white collar worker.