It is often echoed that mathematicians make excellent software engineers, and that their logic-adjacent work will translate efficiently into coding and designing.
I have found this to be almost universally untrue. I might even say the inverse is true.
While I and many of my peers have capacity to navigate the mathematical world, it certainly is not what sets us (at least me) apart when designing clever algorithms and software tricks.
Point being: I dont think the property/trait that makes good programmers is mathematical literacy.
I would love to hear what others experience is regarding this.
You’re absolutely correct, and in my experience authors with physics background are even worse.
I’ve seen algorithms that I know by heart, understand fully and have implemented tens of times represented in such a way that I can’t even recognise them.