Mac to [email protected] • 1 year agoWhat are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?message-square176fedilinkarrow-up1117
arrow-up1117message-squareWhat are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?Mac to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square176fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish43•1 year agoMyth: 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•1 year agoAnd just like artists, the vast majority aren’t very good at it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•1 year agoYes but unlike artists we have far fewer sugar daddies.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoJust making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoOr adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
minus-squareλλλlinkfedilink7•1 year agoI 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