> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right.
Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a product person talking to customers to find out what they need has ever considered their work to be coding, even if the fruits of their discovery eventually ends up as code.
> Code was always the medium
Exactly. If you discovered that what the customer really needed was a wooden cabinet you'd build that instead. You wouldn't give them code and expect it to hold their belongings. Code has never entered the picture until you have something that is well-specified.
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> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right.
Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a product person talking to customers to find out what they need has ever considered their work to be coding, even if the fruits of their discovery eventually ends up as code.
> Code was always the medium
Exactly. If you discovered that what the customer really needed was a wooden cabinet you'd build that instead. You wouldn't give them code and expect it to hold their belongings. Code has never entered the picture until you have something that is well-specified.