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This is exactly what’s happening with scientists. There’s now basically no reason not to run that data analysis you’ve been thinking about but didn’t have time to code before.

I mean outside of classroom assignments I don't think I've ever been on a project where "turn a description of the code you need to write into code" was an option. Even if there is a ticket it's usually your job to find the source of the problem and decide the right course of action!

...Maybe I was lucky agents happened when they did because while the present climate is extremely scary as a young programmer with very little work experience having that little agency in my work as a developer sounds like hell.

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I was one of those people who use excel to do increasingly elaborate things and that eventually led to me doing a Masters degree to learn how to code. And now, those people will be able to transfer their algorithmic thinking much more easily!

do software people not know how computers work lol?

Teehee boy this reminds me of when I discovered pivot tables

why didn’t they teach the astronauts how to drill oil

I literally administer Jira and I couldn’t be bothered to be that weirdo

Yeaaah, I LIKE writing code but I can conceptualize the system I want to create so fast relative to the speed at which I've been able to build even a prototype that it's hard not to get discouraged by all the tedious gruntwork between me and the place where I get to do interesting thinking again.

half tongue-in-cheek, half kinda serious: on the up side, if any SWEs in the US used the very high pay as a reason to not consider other countries, now there’s one less reason to stick around (the last year was a very big motivator for me to get finances sorted out)

I'm glad I was always the type of person who hated feeling reduced to that and often have wound up tinkering with the things I have out of a desire for new challenges that I wasn't getting from my day job

I guess the main question with this is where is new entrants into that smaller group come from. Maybe it’s so small as a group that it can just be filled completely with software mentats

modern SWE is literally just

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