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To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by httpjames@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds ridiculous. It 2024, I'm pretty sure programmers just use voice input and say the ones and zeros instead of sitting there and doing all that typing. Still not sure why they have to wear black hoodies though.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

You young'uns don't know how good you have it! In my day we had to chisel the ones and zeros by hand!

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Playing ping pong in an office that looks like a spaceship, while chat GPT writes code for you. 😉 Just kidding! I assume it is lots of problem solving and work around to make some feature your leadership put in the roadmap.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Sadly (or luckily, depending on how you look at it), GTP is much much worse at writing code than media would make you think.

It's about at the level of a young teenager who knows nothing about coding except how to copy code they found on google.

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

I think programming can be a pretty dull task, where you spend hours over hours copy-pasting fragments of code from former projects and/or from other sources, adjust it to your needs, run it, remove the bug, run it again and find the new ten bugs over and over again.

But you get to wear a black hoodie and a mask.

[–] WastedJobe@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

One minute coming up with a feature, ten minutes coding the most basic version, potentially infinute minutes improving/fixing bugs, -6 hours despairing over time zones. (I had an IT class in my last 2 years of school)