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)
8 hours of meetings and 10 minutes of writing code.
Nailed it!
That’s surprising accurate for many developers.
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.
This should have been an email so I could ignore it and get work done.
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.
ive written a lot of code for clinicians, i have been afforded the benefit of witnessing that chaos
i have it far easier
Playing ping pong in an office that looks like a spaceship, while chat GPT writes code for you. 😉 Just kidding! I assume it is lots of problem solving and work around to make some feature your leadership put in the roadmap.
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.
Can’t be that many on Lemmy at this point.
There are ones of us! Ones!
Saved for later – someone remind me to check back in on this in a day or two.
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
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
Printf(“here 1”);
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
upwith 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.
Endless logic puzzles.
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)
You learn a special type of Spanish and somehow you make MS Word come out
Tedious af.
Waiting for code to compile and deploy is a productivity killer, but it gives me short breaks
The realisation of what my career would be like if I programmed professionally is why I don’t have a career in IT :P
I took programming in highschool with Turing. As far as I know that’s how every computer program works
These two phrases primarily “works as designed/expected” and “works on my machine”
It is like writing Mathematica code, only much simpler.
