Comprehension Over Ownership in Software Development

“You didn’t write the code, so you don’t understand it.” I don’t fully agree. Because if that were true, most engineers wouldn’t understand 90% of the systems they work on. Real world development isn’t about ownership. It’s about comprehension. We constantly work with: • Legacy code • Shared codebases • Third-party integrations • AI-assisted outputs The real question isn’t who wrote it. It’s: can you break it down, reason about it, and improve it? That’s the difference between someone who codes… and someone who engineers. #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringMindset #AIinTech #Developers #Code #TechThoughts #Programming

If you understand the code, you can actually copy from somewhere like Stack Overflow Just make sure you understand the code first. That's how you learn.

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