> being a good communicator is the _last_ thing that makes a good engineer. The best software engineers are good at - I know this comes by a huge surprise - wri

> being a good communicator is the _last_ thing that makes a good engineer. The best software engineers are good at - I know this comes by a huge surprise - writing code Surely you're not measuring how good the engineer is based on number of lines of code he produces per day. If LOC is not the metric, what is the difference between 1000 LOC written by good engineer vs 1000 LOC written by bad engineer? "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."