How We Talk About Code: What We Say & What They Hear

As engineers, code is the product we’re paid to produce. A lot of energy goes into writing it well, maintaining it, testing it. These are good things to spend energy on, and on the way there, we also spend a lot of time talking about code.

And I think it’s important to put care into how we do that well too. I’ve seen how people talk about code in ways both deeply hurtful…