As Lamport says: the algorithm is not the code. Not all products need an "algorithm" per se, but if your product needs to do collaborative editing or something

As Lamport says: the algorithm is not the code. Not all products need an "algorithm" per se, but if your product needs to do collaborative editing or something else CAP-adjacent, that algorithm is going to need to live somewhere (not in throwaway code). The right algorithm (or even if such an algorithm is possible) won't be discovered via iterating on the code base.