> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end. > “Code-first” engineers are obse

> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end. > “Code-first” engineers are obsessed with the abstractions, architecture, tools and libraries in the code. Elegant code is the end. I work on infrastructure products. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that my SDKs don't "solve user problems", because they do. Sure, frontend and backend aren't great descriptors. I often lambast "backend engineering" when a company has a unified hiring process and requires me to recruit the people who do the kind of work I do with the way they recruit web-only backend engineers, but these descriptors are far more amalgamous and tell me much less than what Frontend and Backend do.