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This is important. Plus everything related to debugging when shit happens at 3am and developers are sleeping and maybe contractually not reachable (think about big companies, not startups).

I've been moved to Operations for two years after 10 years of Development. When I went back to Development I started coding as if the 20+ years the code will live after the initial deployment are more important than the 6 months spent creating it. And they are more important for the company, because they pay everybody's salaries and the shareholders. The first 6 months? Not so much.

Academia never has that problem. They also almost never have to deploy code to production.