• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Of all the desk jobs, programmers are least likely to be doing bullshit jobs that it doesn’t matter if it’s done by a glorified random number generator.

    Like I never heard a programmer bemoan that they do all this work and it just vanishes into a void where nobody interacts with it.

    The main complaint is that if they make one tiny mistake suddenly everybody is angry and it’s your fault.

    Some managers are going to have some rude awakenings.

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      3 months ago

      I’m honestly really surprised to hear this. Not a professional programmer and have never acquired a full-time job, but it was still my impression that tons of code just gets painstakingly developed, then replaced, dropped, or lost in the couch cushions, based on how I’ve seen and heard of most organizations operating lol.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Like I never heard a programmer bemoan that they do all this work and it just vanishes into a void where nobody interacts with it

      Where I work, there are at least 5 legacy systems that have been “finished” but abandoned before being used at all because of internal politics, as in, the fucker that moved heaven and hell to make the system NOW got fired the day after it was ready and the area that was supposed to use it didn’t want to.