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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let's them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That's the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don't want to do