Overgeneralising as usual, but I tend to group engineers into 2 camps: builders and optimisers. Builders build product, they can ship something from scratch, d

Overgeneralising as usual, but I tend to group engineers into 2 camps: builders and optimisers. Builders build product, they can ship something from scratch, doing whatever it takes to take the product over the finish line and in the hands of customers. Optimisers are the people who like to come to already built products and iteratively solve one bottleneck after the other that builders made while getting from 0 to 1. Both camps are valuable and both are needed, albeit at different stages of a company life. I tend to think I belong to the first camp. I think being purely code-first is a temporary phase and you tend to get into the first or the second camp at some point.