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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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[–] [email protected] 149 points 10 months ago (5 children)

8 hours of meetings and 10 minutes of writing code.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When I was an associate level all I did was grind out tickets and write code. Now I run from meeting to meeting as a senior.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

That's no fucking joke. Please just send me an email about this meeting because it's not really worthwhile and I just want to crank out code.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

As a principal, I default ignore all meetings that’s more then 2 people, review other people’s terrible code, then refactor large swaths of the code base when I get bored.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

That’s surprising accurate for many developers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This should have been an email so I could ignore it and get work done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oof! So accurate it hurts.