A lawyer, a road inspector and a cardiologist walk into a coding competition. So did I. This is no longer a joke.

I apologized for not being a coder. Some answered: me neither.

We all built software last week. None of us is a professional coder. A US lawyer cracked California's housing crisis. A Belgian cardiologist's code helps him fix hearts. A guy in Uganda automated road inspection. And me — a man who hunts bad intentions in fine print and built a tool that does the same.

Foto: Michał Nedoszytko

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