[tpetrina]

One way of framing this is that people that prefer to solve problems are actually bad at tinkering and writing good code. Hence the existence of terrible codebases written by devs thet “liked to solve problems for the customers”. It is not that clear cut that problem-solvers have that in addition to the tinkering part nor it is guaranteed that tinkerers don’t like to solve problems. Two independent axis!

[stavros]

This is a false dichotomy. There are people who prefer solving problems and are very good at coding, because they've been solving problems with code.