alt Hacker NewsI'm on board with that framing of the process, and I see how my original formulation was too rough.
I was reacting to "We're moving to a world where the mechanical part of grinding the code is not worth much". I have the impression that in the past just mechanically grinding the code was less of a thing than it apparently is today. Guidance, sure, but not as much as seems to be common (often necessarily so) today. But I'm sure that varies with a lot of factors, not just the calendar year.
Exactly. I was channeling the stereotypical dev that says they "just want to write code". To your point they're not literally *only* writing code, but this was the sort of person/mentality I was calling out.
What it says to me is they've actively avoided what appears to be becoming the most important skills in the new world. They're likely to find themselves on the short end of the stick.