Mac@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 年前What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?message-squaremessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down17
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minus-squarehalloween_spookster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·2 年前Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value
minus-squarecallouscomic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 年前And just like artists, the vast majority aren’t very good at it.
minus-squarePatches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 年前Yes but unlike artists we have far fewer sugar daddies.
minus-squareporgamrer@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·2 年前eh, more like self-important plumbers
minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 年前Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.
minus-squareporgamrer@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 年前Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
minus-squareλλλ@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 年前I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol
Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over
Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value
And just like artists, the vast majority aren’t very good at it.
Yes but unlike artists we have far fewer sugar daddies.
eh, more like self-important plumbers
Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.
Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol