"If you're not writing code, you lose touch with the system," Recht said on "The Peterman Pod."
"A software engineer needs to write code," Recht said. "I know that some people find that pretty controversial for some reason.""
"Otherwise, there's a risk that all the learnings from building reliable software at scale will just be lost and replaced by cool but useless prototypes," Recht wrote."
Joakim Recht spent nearly nine years climbing Uber's engineering ladder from senior software engineer to distinguished engineer. Recht insists that engineers at any level should continue writing code to remain connected to systems and retain practical skills. He warns that stepping away from coding risks losing learnings required to build reliable software at scale and could produce attractive but useless prototypes. Examples show principal engineers sometimes lead without coding after mastering codebases. The rise of AI-assisted coding may push engineers toward tool management, so senior engineers should keep coding, even if the amount or method changes.
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