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>I can't believe this has to be said, but yeah. Code took time, but it was never the hard part.

For you and others here but you only need to look at the number of people who can’t code FizzBuzz to realise there are many who struggle with it.

It’s easy to take your own knowledge for granted. I’ve met a lot of people who know their business inside out but couldn’t translate that knowledge into code.

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I mean, of course not everyone can code. I'm not saying that programming is trivial, or anyone can just naturally write code. What I'm saying is that if you're a full time engineer then some part of your day is spent programming but the difficult work is not encompassed by "how do I write the code to do this?" - sometimes it is, but mostly you think about lots of other things surrounding the code.

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