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by dubcanada 4330 days ago
That's quiet the straw man argument. Nowhere did he say anything about knowing how too code.
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Not really - should CTOs who know how to read and write actually read and write for the job? Of course.

Imagine a newspaper managing editor or the head of a medieval scriptorium. We would not expect either of them to be doing the day to day lettering or articles, but the idea they should not use their literacy I. Support of the rest of the business is crazy. As is the idea that the only coding one should do is "on the product"