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They let anyone commit to production these days

Today, more than ever so it seems, people outside the software engineering field partake in writing code that eventually makes it to production environments. An increasingly great number of companies have data analysts or researcher personnel write code as part of their job. I find this phenomenon rather interesting as I do not believe this was the case as far as only a decade ago. Back in the day, doctors practiced medicine, chefs practiced cooking and researchers practiced, well, research. It was the software engineers who were concerned with how to get computers do what was needed to be done using code. Today on the other hand, while it’s still quite difficult to find a brain surgeon who writes code, it is quite easy to find a computer vision researcher coding for a software company, or a statistician slamming hadoop jobs (the reason for this shift is interesting in its own right, but as design documents often state – this is out of scope).