> No, the equivalent for a software engineer is actually coding, whether on the job or not. Practice and performance are not the same thing. The mindset is ent

> No, the equivalent for a software engineer is actually coding, whether on the job or not. Practice and performance are not the same thing. The mindset is entirely different. Imagine a world where devs are told by their managers to stop working on a task when it’s clear that the task is not improving their skills. It doesn’t happen because as a software dev every day is game day. Instead they will get asked to solve the same kind of problem umpteenth times. I’ve had to leave top tech companies just to get an opportunity to improve.