I just got a Jr dev job about 3 weeks ago and I haven’t written a single line of code. It’s all been meetings and other shit. I’m kind of ok with that. Lol
I think this is something a lot of people posting here don’t get. You can be a programmer, make apps or games in your spare time, set your own goals and be your own boss, and that’s great. Suddenly you get a “normal” job programming and you have you deal with customer requirements, business nonsense, and working as part of a team; that’s being a software engineer. One isn’t superior to the other, they are just different beasts.
Absolutely. There is very little programming involved in a normal job most of the year. I actually knew that before getting in. I have friends on the same team that have been there before me and they explained things beforehand. I have so many meetings and business stuff daily. We also reach out to users to help them fix issues on their machines, too.
A while back the PHP community invested massively in tracking down anti-pattern advice (like using magic_quotes) in a coordinated effort to stop misinforming new developers… I look forward to our new GPT overlords who get misinformation baked into them that we can never get out.
Pop quiz - who did the majority of Twitter respondants say won the 2020 election? I don’t know the answer and considering that’s a large portion of GPT’s training data that’s fucking scary.
Quality over quantity. I have seen people who have done things better and faster than a whole team. I am almost one of them but alas I only work for few hours before deadline. If I could work like this every day I would single handedly build everything. It kinda bugs me what stuff I could do if I didn’t suffer and delay it all feeling mix of guilt and shame.
I think long messages are a good habit. Start with something readable in the history, past that who cares? Most people rarely read past the preview, and if they do they want details
I think it’s great because it makes you reflect on what the goal was and what you did. I sometimes stop to make a quick change as I’m writing, or just collect my thoughts before mentally dismissing the task
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