// Hacker Noon · 13 March 2026

Senior Engineers Know the Hardest Part Isn’t Coding

The most expensive code I ever wrote solved the wrong problem perfectly. I’d taken stakeholder requests at face value, translated them into technical requirements, and built exactly what was asked for. The hardest part of engineering isn’t writing code, it's figuring out what to build.

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