> I think this is a reflection of where engineering work has moved over the past where a lot of my time now is spent reviewing code rather than writing it.
This was always true. Front-End code is not really code. Most of the back-end code is just convert and moving data around. For most functionality where you need "real code" like crypto, compression, math, etc.. you use a library used by another 100k developers.
This was always true. Front-End code is not really code. Most of the back-end code is just convert and moving data around. For most functionality where you need "real code" like crypto, compression, math, etc.. you use a library used by another 100k developers.