"code face" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse engineering in practice",
          "text": "[…] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.",
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          "ref": "1992, Derek Partridge, Engineering artificial intelligence software",
          "text": "Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge to apologize for the current techniques and to seek improvement?",
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          "ref": "1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K Optimism: Unjustified in survey”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet)",
          "text": "This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.",
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          "ref": "2003, Robert L Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering",
          "text": "Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code craft: the practice of writing excellent code",
          "text": "Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.",
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