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Yes, for relatively small projects the above is true - software engineers who ship lots of value, but little code are rare. For slightly larger projects they are not so rare. Systems or integration engineers do less coding, but can make the whole thing actually work end-to-end. Engineers that change projects within the company can have drops in their contribution rates, but their wide knowledge can prevent many-a-mistake from happening.

Looking for healthy collaboration is the key, this is where the magic usually happens. Counting lines of code is a poor proxy for this.