Interesting perspective about “real” coding. The purpose of software for me is to solve problems for people. Infrastructure-leave code doesn’t directly help users, though of course it does indirectly. But I think the low level stuff is fun for people who are interested in how things work, and completely inconsequential from an external value point of view.

So I see a real argument for the code that builds an application in the simplest way possible being the “realest” form of coding.