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Do you think the product is not the code?

• icedchai 8mo ago
  From a user perspective, yes. The product is what it does, not how it does it.
  • jimbokun 8mo ago
    But for the person building the product it very much is how it does it.
    • icedchai 8mo ago
      I think we (developers) need to get over that. Code was always the means to an end, which is providing a product to solve a problem, not the end itself.
      • jimbokun 8mo ago
        The code is still the means to the end. AIs still write code, that is compiled and deployed and operated in some manner.
• munk-a 8mo ago
  It isn't, no one is buying code on it's own - but it's a component of the product. I dislike the phrasing above since it assumes the two are distinct things.
• jayd16 8mo ago
  Honestly, it never was. Personal projects not withstanding, if there is a product that should always be the focus. Code is only a means to that.