I’ve been in roles where pretty much all I did most days was review other people’s code.

It wasn’t always what I wanted to be doing, but we were trying to establish a review culture and a coherent architecture - and not just a bunch of loose cannons working away in their own corners - so I took one for the team*.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m not so freaked out now by the idea of not writing most of the code myself?

(*whether this was the right approach is a whole other question)