Comment by sdevonoes

I didn’t know modern (2015-2026) software engineers were making such a strong distinction between “writing code” and “designing solutions”. It’s not the majority of engineers “design” and then hand over the implementation to others (at least Ive never seen that before).

From my experience, a typical software engineer needs to understand the business (e.g., knowing who your users are), design a solution (e.g., we probably need an event-driven arch right here) and write the code (e.g., we should use select for update skip locked to avoid over claiming). They all are equally challenging imho