I was friends with some folks who contributed to a very popular open source project / website about 20 years ago. They noted that the founder, someone I look up to, didn’t really code.

That same founder subsequently wrote software that transformed the web, many times. He’s a stronger technologist than most people will ever be. He’s a phenomenal coder.

But coding is often not the skill project owners need to focus on. Execution is about strategy and community building, not programming.