For Street-Smart Coding Manifesto, the prequel of my coding trilogy, I wrote what being a street-smart coder is: a coder with a "very particular set of skills" that creates impact beyond lines of code. Here what being a street-smart coder means.

While a coder obsesses over syntax:

Adding endless abstractions

Micro-optimizing code nobody touches

Building 100% reusable components no one will reuse