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considering my journey (systems engineer / not coder -> founder -> product growth) if you are in the "technical side of things" you probably do need a notion of coding. Maybe you don't need to be an expert in Node for instance but at least have some nuances when Claude Code gives you code snippets to run. A good example is having Codex tell me how to repair my car and me not having idea of what is it talking about (I don't, cars are a black box to me). So I believe technical affinity, and flexibility in grasping technical subjects and moving around them is the way to go. At least this is what i say to my kids but I am not Pythia the ancient Greek oracle in Delphi :P