I have always viewed coding as a form of writing. The challenging parts of coding are the architecture, solving for original problems, and reduction (maintaini

I have always viewed coding as a form of writing. The challenging parts of coding are the architecture, solving for original problems, and reduction (maintaining simplicity via refactoring). The same things apply to writing. A common pattern I have observed is that developers most challenged at writing tend to be the developers most challenged at providing an original code solution.