<story><title>How to excel in tech without learning to code</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/excel-in-tech-without-learning-to-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl2718</author><text>Okay, so basically, tell other people to code. Got it.&lt;p&gt;The only special thing about someone who ‘can code’ versus someone who ‘cannot’ is their persistence to do whatever is necessary to solve the problem at hand. At some point that skill was required. ‘Coders’ end up doing everything in a business: talk to customers, validate use cases, test, financial projection, write marketing copy, design interfaces, make a presentations to investors, build a web site, manage the database, onboard new hires, interview. They just do it for someone else to take the credit, because they’re too busy to play that game.&lt;p&gt;If you want to see this principle in action, try giving a coder a critical assignment from any other department&amp;#x2F;discipline, anything that is obviously more critical to the business than whatever they are doing. Watch them attack the problem relentlessly, failing over and over again until they get it. Then find someone from any other department: ask an HR person to do the CFO’s job, or a sales person to do security operations. They’ll tell you they don’t know how to do that, and that will be the end of it.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to excel in tech without learning to code</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/excel-in-tech-without-learning-to-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillipcarter</author><text>In my experience there&amp;#x27;s a lot more need for people who understand the data and data systems of a company and how to analyze that data than someone who can write some code. This is also technical work in my mind. Data analysis done correctly is very hard, because it&amp;#x27;s rarely the case that a company&amp;#x27;s data systems are well-formed, gather the right information without any gaps, and organize it effectively. Knowing how to wrangle that can make you incredibly valuable to everyone, and there&amp;#x27;s no need to know how to write product code to do it.</text></comment>