It's kinda fun to think of programming as magic.
And "libraries" as grimoires/tomes .

It's surprising how far you can go with the analogy.

Some time ago:

• Me: "Programming is fun, but user interfaces are a PITA"
• CS student: "What!? The algorithms I'm given to solve are really complicated!"
• After a year on a job: "I hate testing user interfaces..."

Some other day:

• Me: "Programming is mostly copy&paste"
• Engineering student: "What!? We have to come up with a new solution for every problem!"
• After a year on a job: "I don't program anymore, just copy&paste..."

Told ya.

Is it actually Taylor Swift?

We do what we can, because we must!

LLMs will replace the programmers right before they replace the satarists.

Merge needs some stomp, yeah, mine stomp yours.

edit: note, this is a good thing, cause then we both have unlimited supply of tickets.

That is a lot of fun to do, most times. Also I need to provide for my family and the guys who pay my salary want their stupid features implemented like yesterday.

Over the past month I feel like all I've been doing is writing tech design documents for systems I don't actually know anything about because I haven't had the opportunity to go in and do anything with them.

Fortunately I've finally managed to reach the point where everyone agrees that we should just start implementing the basics and see how that goes rather than try to plan it all out ahead of time since we're surely going to have to throw out the later plans once we see what we're actually dealing with.

like with many jobs you're learning to only do the work that matters, and oftentimes when you can avoid doing work that actually improves the product.

There's a reason why construction workers aren't making their own planks and nails, that would be horribly time consuming, inefficient, and they'd probably make shitty planks.

Absolutely. I barely touch code anymore, but I talk about how to touch code a lot.

Can ya please go back to the Drop-Down thingy for your license? It's already annoying on its own, but it gets even more so when Voyager adds the Link-Preview

Hey, how do you get the creative Commons attribution to automatically appear under your comments?

There's an intern inside the server that checks every transaction by hand

Be careful with that one. I'm not sure about your experience level, but a mistake newer (and some more experienced) programmers often make is taking DRY too far.

It's easy to "dry" something up to the point where it's spaghetti that's overly clever about how it reduces lines of code resulting in some crazy inheritance hierarchy even you (the author) are afraid to change a few years down the road.

There are of course other times when someone just copy and pasted e.g. sort logic all over the code base ... but that sort of thing is relatively rare

To me, there is no greater high than seeing big negative numbers on a commit. Deleting stuff is the most satisfying experience in programming. A commit with +10, -142 is mint.