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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/54810980
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Senko Rašić"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmersThe software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
I read “Code was never the hard part” as “Writing the Code down is easier than the stuff you do before it (like Architecture, Design Patterns, Requirements) and after it (Testing, Troubleshooting, Refactoring, etc)”.
Replying to @bort@sopuli.xyz
Writing code was never more than 20% of what I do as a programmer. All those other things are where I have always spent me time, and those are the hard part.
Replying to @bluGill@fedia.io
And to me the least fun. Programming is the fun part, everything else is stuff I have to deal with to do the fun part.
Replying to @Dultas@lemmy.world
All of it has parts I hate there is a lot of boring code I've had to work on. And sometimes the fun code is things I finish and say nobody should every do that...
Replying to @bluGill@fedia.io
Then look at it again in a year and go, “Who wrote this?!” Do a git blame then go, “Oh, why did I do this?”