Yes but also no I guess? Like would you say being a manager or in marketing is about writing, or that being in sales is about talking? Those are the main methods of accomplishing what those roles are meant to do, but it's not like they're about writing and talking.

What do you mean being a manager or in marketing is about writing? Like that statement makes no sense and is wildly vague. The main role of being a manager is to write? The main role of being "in marketing" is to write? I think you're doing a lot of reducing in that and framing the wrong abstract "write". Same mistake as the article.

In fact, my entire point of the critisim is that you can apply the concept to every profession and it will still be valid hence its a banal weird thing.

Saying being a manager or in marketing is about people makes 100x more sense than to say its about writing. Almost all jobs involve people so it applies universally.

But that doesn't mean software is not code. that is still a weird thing to say and wrong.