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> I'm still baffled to see how many developers believe the key to professional success is writing a lot of computer code, as fast and as efficiently as possible.

I wonder if developers tend to believe this, or if leadership incentivizes it, either explicitly[1] or implicitly.

1: https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-braces-for-layoffs

> Rezaei tried to rally the troops, telling engineers to focus on shipping code as quickly as possible:

> "So if you ask what should I do now: do good engineering work. Write code. Fix bugs, keep the site up. I know the criteria for being at Twitter is that. It’s not working on a fancy project for Elon. The good culture change is, it’s shipping and delivering. I encourage you to rotate more on coding and shipping, and less on documentation, planning, strategy etc. If you want to be in a “special” group this week, code and ship 5x as [much as] before. ..."