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> because its a different skill set.

In the same way that being able to play on a little league baseball team and being able to make it to the majors are different skill sets.

Which is to say that it is the same essential skills, just varying degrees of proficiency.

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I think being a good engineer requires some amount of "soft skills" like project planing, documentation, understanding user requirements. Its more than just being good at writing code (but that's most of it).

Writing a working program of any kind requires those in some capacity. You can do it poorly and minimally, but you can't escape it entirely. Indeed, a highly proficient developer will do those things well.

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