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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by piva00 on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:22PM (#33664329)
> only mentoring others and attending meetings and writing design docs (as someone else suggested here)

If you are mentioning a previous comment of mine [1] in this thread I think you're grossly misrepresenting my words. And if so I definitely take offense in that as it's not only uncharitable, it's completely missing the point and reducing a brief expansion based on one of your questions to "only attending meetings and writing design docs", something I've never mentioned in the hypothetical scenario you raised.

I expect my assumptions are wrong because if not I'd definitely say you're not fit to be a leader or architect of anything.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33660403

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:49PM (#33664669)
No, that was about someone else who posted that they would not expect even half of software developers, to be actually writing code. I found that statement bizarre.

Like, yeah of course the top engineers find themselves less and less hands-on-keyboard as they turn more to technical leadership roles. But some people seem to be arguing that code isn’t the bread and butter work for majority of developers. Who’s doing the actual work then, is my question for them.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by michaelmrose on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:38PM (#33673195)
>someone else who posted that they would not expect even half of software developers, to be actually writing code.

I don't think anyone actually said that.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:29PM (#33673712)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33660042

I wrote:

> In an org with thousands of software engineers, shouldn’t most of them be writing code?

And this person's reply was:

> no, I don't think most of them should be writing code

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by michaelmrose on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:55PM (#33677663)
Read more than one word answer you expected to find.

> I wouldn't put any kind of quantifier on it. I'm willing to bet most, if not all Twitter developers were above average across the industry and were producing work of value.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:56PM (#33684631)
He literally says he doesn't expect most software engineers to be coding. That's outlandish, and his follow-up that thousands of Twitter engineers somehow can still be "producing work or value" without coding is ridiculous.
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