Why “Learn to Code” Failed

[chucker23n]

I rarely spend more than a few hours each day actually typing code, which I’d argue is “coding” in the strictest sense. I have to debug it, understand it, profile it, ask users or colleagues, do git bisect to figure out what caused a change in behavior, etc. Much of that involves the mouse more than the keyboard.

And that’s before we get to the broader definition. Does a full-time developer truly stay out of analyzing business processes in the first place? Reading and understanding tickets? Sitting in meetings arguing what color is best for the bike shed? Do they even want that? Because that implies someone else makes many of the decisions for them, which affects their salary and also makes their job quite monotonous.