Comment by jghn
3 hours ago
Mostly this. The phrase "code was the never the hard part" touches on a larger culture war. I was I was moving up in the ranksit was common to see people, both myself and then watching others, say things like "I just want to code".
Coding was the job. But there were diminishing returns in that getting better at coding wasn't as impactful as getting better at all the social skills, big picture strategy, and general scheming.
Maybe "code was never the hard part" should be replaced with "coding wasn't the most important part". But I think we all know what it means. Those higher level skills are the things that LLMs can't do, at least for now. Coding? It can do that, at least sort of.
It's exactly this - "coding was never the hard part" translates more directly to "coding was never was slowing me down". It's nailing down requirements, it's cross-functional team meetings, it's planning the testing and rollout, it's integrating with all the other parts of the product and systems, etc etc etc. Optimizing coding was just aiming at the fastest part of the job already.