Developers, Your Job Is Not To Write Code

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This essay is adapted from a lightning talk that I originally presented to coworkers in 2019. The advice I’ve consistently given to developers who want to grow might seem counter-intuitive, but it’s always held true for me—the first step to being a great developer is recognizing that your job is not to write code. How do I know this to be true? Well, I’ve never spent a single minute of a…

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