Engineering
Reading Code Is the Job
We hire for the ability to write and then spend our careers reading. It is worth getting good at the thing we actually do.
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The myth of the job is that engineers write code. The reality is that engineers read code, and occasionally, briefly, change it.
Reading as a first-class skill
If reading is most of the work, then code that is easy to read is not a nicety — it is the product. Optimize for the reader and you optimize for the median hour of the job.