[reikonomusha]

There's relevance in talking about both micro- and macroscopic guidelines. Both are important.

Very rarely does someone "read" an entire code base "with one look" and be able to deduce issues. You do, at some point, have to get into the weeds. Managing that experience is what articles like these are about.

[collyw]

Yes, there is value in both, but I only ever see people talking about the former.

[amirouche]

There are more people talking about code that don't know actual code than people that know what they talk about when they say code source. A software is not only a source code, it's many things: business rules, GUI, database, network, programming language etc. It's seems logical that there's more talking that is macroscopic from the point of view of coder's own microscopic. Hopefully, hackernews is here to help ;)