What I’m saying is, I’m one of 18 million. So that’s what I’m writing: my view of software development, as an individual among millions. Code has been my life, and it has been your life, too. It is time to understand how it all works.
The rhetor is trying to explain to us what code is. He says he is one of 18 million coders. Coding is a very hard thing to learn and takes time to figure how to learn it. The rhetor goes on to talk about what coding is and how it is used in businesses. Coding also has changed our lives in other ways.