[johnfn]

> I think the perspective of this is assuming that the technical skill is there.

Of course if the technical skill is there then the most important skills will be nontechnical. :P

[forgottenpass]

Exactly. The unspoken context undermines the point. It makes me wonder why articles like this gain any traction. What purpose do they serve?

Is it really a case people have the notion developers min/max their professional skills like it was a video game where only the level of "programming skill" matters?

I doubt anyone who comes across these articles have so little life experience to actually believe the lazy stereotype "developer" = "anime watching shut-in with no life skills and can't function in society."

So what _other_ purpose does the article serve? Who is the audience, and what value do they get? (I have my ideas, I'm just asking rhetorically.)