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Editorial judgment shows up in product work
Every interface decides what appears first, what gets grouped together, and what the user can safely ignore. That is editorial work, even when it happens in code.
Why it matters for teams
Engineers who think editorially tend to produce calmer products because they treat hierarchy as part of implementation, not decoration added afterward.