Does the code matter?

I write more code than ever these days. I’ve been working on mobile apps, web frontend code and backend code.

Though I call it writing, what I’m actually doing is more about reviewing code and absorbing knowledge in the process.

Mostly, I build and I learn. I never really wrote Go before, but now I did.

But wait, did I write it? No, I had a list of specifications, and I asked the machine to write code that fit in our Go architecture.

I then took the time to review the code, edit some parts of it myself, tested it, made a PR, got some comment from a real human, learned some more as I edited the code, read some more Go. Asked the machine to re review my code.

Our code.

It made me think about programming once again. A skill I refined over the last 20+ years of my life and career. Most of my life I wrote code myself, manually. Character by character, tabbing when the slow autocomplete was showing me some interesting results.

Line by line.

But writing code in itself is I believe a tiny part of the engineering world we live in today. It’s always been about finding the right solution for a given problem.

Its always been about building for me. I like to build things, I like when other humans use the things I’ve…