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Software is about people, not code (2020)

Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed…

However, I eventually learned that people were far more important for the success of a software project than code. The most beautiful, well tested, flexible, configurable, documented, future proofed codebase that does the wrong thing is useless. At the end of the day, code is a general purpose tool, just like accounting or research and development.

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