I never said great engineers didn’t write code. But writing the code was never the point.

The point has always been delivering the product to the customer, in any industry. Code is rarely the deliverable.

That’s my point.

> But writing the code was never the point.

Is that why most prestigious jobs grilled you like a devil on algos/system design?

> The point has always been delivering the product to the customer, in any industry. Code is rarely the deliverable.

That’s just nonsense. It’s like saying “delivering product was always the most important thing, not drinking water”.