The headline was so weird, it clickbaited me, I had to read it.
Weird...I've never heard of a lawyer who can code, although I'm sure some of anything is out there in this big world.
Regardless, the collaboration between lawyers and coders is certainly relevant and something I knew - everyone wants a software that knows the law and can auto-produce legal artifacts for them, although I'm sure that is a limited game. Having read a lot of cases in law school and being required to understand what their meaning for real life was, I'd have a hard time seeing a software program that can assess a set of facts and then recommend a legal strategy for defense or litigation!
But for boilerplate stuff like contracts and real estate and business founding, those products seem pretty common. Legalzoom, etc.
A great example of what software CAN work with a million pre-determined conditional inputs/outputs, is Turbotax.com. Which of course is the product of a collaboration between lawyers, accountants and coders.