The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer

[Knajjd]

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The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer

Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.

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Partial extracts of the article follow:

Being a software engineer is tough. You need to know a couple of programming languages and tools right from the get-go. But that won’t cut it. Companies expect you to know whatever particular framework they use. That might be Rails or Django or Laravel or something else. You’ll also need CSS. It’ll take you a lifetime to learn — and you still won’t know why the layout’s breaking — but knowing just enough to get by is feasible.

Software gets more complicated. All of this complexity is there for a reason. But what happened to specializing? When a house is being built, tons of people are involved: architects, civil engineers, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, interior designers, roofers, surveyors, pavers, you name it. You don’t expect a single person, or even a whole single company, to be able to do all of those.

 

[Scatius Deletus]

Bomb all universities

 

[based_meme]

Bomb all universities

In The Sims 4.

 

[Just say NIGGER!]

Now, all the university goers like me are wasting time because all of this is being replaced by AI.

 

[wereq]

The worst aspect of the software industry is that it undergoes a paradigm shift almost every couple of years. Yesterday it was cloud/devops, today its AI, tomorrow it will be another thing. You have to constantly learn on the go just to do your job as your old knowledge becomes obsolete. This puts tremendous pressure on workers which is why even good hard working intelligent guys are burning out from being code slaves.

 

[smegma producer]

i know old guys that have been in IT since the 80s-90s, there is no secret that devs are fucked in the head. you kind of have to be, who would wanna sit for hours figuring what broke everything only to discover a misplaced [ { or even ,

 

[wereq]

there is no secret that devs are fucked in the head. you kind of have to be, who would wanna sit for hours figuring what broke everything only to discover a misplaced [ { or even ,

Yeah this. It takes a special kind of fucked up person to obsess over hundreds of thousands of lines of code. No normal person is naturally interested in esoteric bs like this.

 

[Thugs-5-Less]

Bomb all universities

 

[Thugs-5-Less]

Hideous fucking industry

 

[smegma producer]

Yeah this. It takes a special kind of fucked up person to obsess over hundreds of thousands of lines of code. No normal person is naturally interested in esoteric bs like this.

yeah even when i was dealing with my biggest project of 200-300 lines of code, trying to figure why shit broke, i swear i was on the verge to just snap.

i cant for the life understand how devs deal with that shit, even for something as small as couple hundred lines of code

scripting aint as bad thankfully

 

[starcrapoo]

just use chatgpt/ai to help you code lol

thats been going on for a while now and its the future of coding basically

 

[wereq]

i cant for the life understand how devs deal with that shit, even for something as small as couple hundred lines of code

They obviously have to have immense mental stamina and IQ.

 

[smegma producer]

just use chatgpt/ai to help you code lol

thats been going on for a while now and its the future of coding basically

work for really basic shit. But once you start doing real dev work, then chat gpt wont save your ass, lol

 

[smegma producer]

They obviously have to have immense mental stamina and IQ.

looking at the numbers of troons doing dev shit, i dont think a strong mind is the answer.

in the end i dont care, im just a low life tech in the end.

i just want the devs to write good docs and im happy

 

[SmhChan]

When a house is being built, tons of people are involved: architects, civil engineers, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, interior designers, roofers, surveyors, pavers, you name it. You don’t expect a single person, or even a whole single company, to be able to do all of those.

Cutting cost, obviously.

 

[Knajjd]

Cutting cost, obviously.

Extract:

"most of it seems to stem from incompetent managers imposing impossible deadlines downwards and setting unrealistic expectations upwards – you know, kick down, lick up – creating a perfect storm of incompetence."

 

[SmhChan]

looking at the numbers of troons doing dev shit, i dont think a strong mind is the answer.

Yeah, some are just born with this ability to reason abstractly much better than average.

 

[twisted]

Just be a 200 iq mogger

 

[SmhChan]

Extract:

"most of it seems to stem from incompetent managers imposing impossible deadlines downwards and setting unrealistic expectations upwards – you know, kick down, lick up – creating a perfect storm of incompetence."

Most software applications are just pump and dump schemes. But instead of the general public, the investors are targeted.

 

[Knajjd]

Just be a 200 iq mogger

Who sleeps 4 hours a day, eats no hot meals, half yearly shower and ends up in psych ward after 12 months with 24 hour suicide watch and all liberties denied.

 

[poorenglishcel]

moga thread

 

[Emba]

just use chatgpt/ai to help you code lol

thats been going on for a while now and its the future of coding basically

Ai bot took my

Software Engineer job​