Code Is Communication: Humans First, Machines Second

00:08:48 — Code Is Communication: Humans First, Machines Second

Writing code is fundamentally a communications exercise. Programming languages exist first so that humans can understand them, and second so that computers can. When other developers cannot understand your code, you are failing as a communicator. Test-driven development is framed as a powerful communication tool that expresses intent. Most bugs, perhaps 95% of them, stem not from technical problems but from misunderstood code, missed logic, or poorly named methods and variables. These are all communication failures.