You’re Not Paid to Write Code

You're Not Paid to Write Code - by Dr Milan Milanović Tech World With Milan Newsletter Subscribe Sign in You're Not Paid to Write Code Dr Milan Milanović Mar 12, 2026 63 6 Share One thing I noticed in my engineering organizations is that when people get the problem to work on, the first step is to open the editor, create a new branch, and start coding. I always felt this was the wrong direction. What I've found over more than twenty years of building software across different domains is that engineers who delivered the most value to projects and companies weren’t the most productive coders.