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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm a senior dev and I'll be honest: I'm not sure what I do.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You enchant rocks engraved with runes

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    There was a series of books in the '80s where a systems programmer gets pulled through a portal into your typical magical world, good vs evil, etc.

    They subsequently look at the magical spells in use and realise they can apply Good Systems Programming Practices™ to them. And thus, with their knowledge of subroutines and parallel processing, they amplify their tiny innate magical abilities up to become a Pretty Good Magician™. So while all the rest of the magicians basically have to construct their spells to execute in a linear fashion, they're making magical subroutines and utility functions and spawning recursive spells without halting checks and generally causing havoc.

    It's quite a good allegory for modern times, where a select few build all the magic and the rest just have useful artefacts they use on a day to day basis with no idea how they work

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