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I never called what I did “coding” and tbh I found being called a “coder” demeaning if not insulting I fixed shit and solved problems and sometimes it involved code. Sometimes it didn’t. The biggest money-save I ever made happen at a job was from reading AWS documentation, not “coding”

designing API surfaces, formats, and user-facing structure is definitely more important to me than implementation details, but you often need to grasp the implementation details pretty soundly to do the above usefully, so staying close to the code is still important imo.