What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?mac@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 108 points – 5 months ago171Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsMyth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing valueAnd just like artists, the vast majority aren't very good at it.1 more...eh, more like self-important plumbersJust making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 yearsI feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol1 more...
Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing valueAnd just like artists, the vast majority aren't very good at it.1 more...eh, more like self-important plumbersJust making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 yearsI feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol1 more...
eh, more like self-important plumbersJust making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol
Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over
Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value
And just like artists, the vast majority aren't very good at it.
eh, more like self-important plumbers
Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.
Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol