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I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

8 hours of meetings and 10 minutes of writing code.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When I was an associate level all I did was grind out tickets and write code. Now I run from meeting to meeting as a senior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This should have been an email so I could ignore it and get work done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Playing with imaginary Legos to put together a rickety tower.

Edit: though on reflection, a systems approach to nursing the acutely ill is exactly the same but we're maintaining "God's" legacy code while we try to keep someone with kidney, heart, and lung problems functioning with judicious application of fluid management, drugs, and dialysis.

Maybe what we do is closer to Jenga.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

ive written a lot of code for clinicians, i have been afforded the benefit of witnessing that chaos

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Playing ping pong in an office that looks like a spaceship, while chat GPT writes code for you. πŸ˜‰ Just kidding! I assume it is lots of problem solving and work around to make some feature your leadership put in the roadmap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Since programmers invented AI, did they make it so it wouldn't take their jobs? I hope that was on their list, there has to be a job for someone not in the service industry in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can’t be that many on Lemmy at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There are ones of us! Ones!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Saved for later – someone remind me to check back in on this in a day or two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Hey, check back in on this in a day or two.

Sorry. I'm a dad. It had to be done. I'm not proud of myself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Well, I'm not really the truly blind here, I used to do some BASIC back in the eighties. Just introductory level shit, though. I'm talking a course taken over a summer for "gifted" kids, not even an actual full on course at a serious level. And I wasn't very good at it lol

But, I still have no clue what modern languages are like, or how they're used professionally. I've always assumed, you guys are busy entering lines of code, then compiling and testing, then punching things because you have to go back and fuck ~~up~~ with the code again.

I figure there may be ways to streamline the coding itself, maybe chunks of prefab that can be copy/pasted, or whatever.

Other than that, I suppose there's lots of coffee, coke and/or meth, and a lot of waifu pillows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Printf("here 1");

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What about us who are not in the IT industry but our job is being programmers (I'm an actuarie, on the insurance industry, and I spend 90% of my time programming scripts on python and SQL)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Endless logic puzzles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You learn a special type of Spanish and somehow you make MS Word come out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I took programming in highschool with Turing. As far as I know that's how every computer program works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Waiting for code to compile and deploy is a productivity killer, but it gives me short breaks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The realisation of what my career would be like if I programmed professionally is why I don't have a career in IT :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

These two phrases primarily "works as designed/expected" and "works on my machine"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Swinging between feeling like you're a computer god, and then feeling like you're horrible at your job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It is like writing Mathematica code, only much simpler.