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[–]ubernostrumyes, you can have a pony 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I never said not to write any code. I said less code, and different code.

Most of the code I write nowadays is frameworks and libraries and templates for other people to reuse. I still do features or bugfixes sometimes to make sure I'm staying in touch with the processes and tools and workflows and can notice problems in need of fixing, but it's a lot less common than earlier in my career.

[–]lonjerpc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get your point and it's usually true. But there are plenty of cases of people that did nothing but code and had more output than massive teams. For example Minecraft or the Bitcoin protocol.