• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    This article makes the case that corporate programming sucks.

    Yeah, programming sucks, but there are many things I love about it, most of all that human interaction is minimal and it’s relatively well-paid.

    The most frustrating thing to me about programming is that there’s always a problem that crops up in the code you use. Bugs are a part of programming, but nearly every project I’ve worked on or started and used third-party code was slowed down, trying to figure out why that dependency wasn’t doing what it should’ve been. It’s great that it existed in the first place, but sometimes you run into one that has to be rewritten in order to work thus becoming your new project 😢

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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    7 months ago

    This is all incredibly (funny, and) poignant, and, as a programmer, I agree. But any career has its level of trimming Satan’s pubes, and I’m really happy to be trimming my share.

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    7 months ago

    Just buy our vendor’s/partner’s SaaS solution and all of this magically goes away!

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        7 months ago

        Oh, it’s drag-and-drop only with no keyboard support whatsoever. Changing a variable is hidden beneath 12 menus, and it uses a proprietary IDE that locks up after every click. Looks great in screenshots though!

        You can 100% fire all your developers!*

        *As long as your business users have loads of free time and the skillset of developers.