[contagiousflow]

Do you think the product is not the code?

[icedchai]

From a user perspective, yes. The product is what it does, not how it does it.

[jimbokun]

But for the person building the product it very much is how it does it.

[icedchai]

I think we (developers) need to get over that. Code was always the means to an end, which is providing a product to solve a problem, not the end itself.

[jimbokun]

The code is still the means to the end. AIs still write code, that is compiled and deployed and operated in some manner.

[munk-a]

It isn't, no one is buying code on it's own - but it's a component of the product. I dislike the phrasing above since it assumes the two are distinct things.

[jayd16]

Honestly, it never was. Personal projects not withstanding, if there is a product that should always be the focus. Code is only a means to that.