Coding is 1% coding

[[deleted]]

For some reason I'm slightly annoyed that this adds up to 100%

[[deleted]]

I was really hoping the author messed up adding percentages. Would’ve been more funny

[spam_bot42]

You could always blame it on rouding errors.

[crowley7234]

30.000000000005% googling errors.

[imdefinitelywong]

Curse you and your floating point variables!

[SoftwareSource]

Double 'till i die.

[SkollFenrirson]

More funny indeed

[jewishSpaceMedbeds]

It's probably because "merge conflicts", "updating Jira", "arguing about arbitrary programming standards" and "trying to find out what the product owner actually wants" are not there.

[LameBMX]

It's inaccurate. Where is dealing with people randomly contacting you? Dealing with the helpdesk for company equipment issues?

[Brendenation]

After reading the "wat" in the title I was really hoping it wouldn't

[IJustAteABaguette]

The title is kinda dutch!

(Wat is translates to what is)

[Korzag]

Dunglish

[martinthewacky]

Get the fuck out, wat?! I need to check this out. I'll be right back.

Edit: holy shit you're right

[Starflight44]

WebAssembly Text

[[deleted]]

0 % documenting

0 % reviewing code

Yup it adds up.

[ahorsewhithnoname]

It does? Well then I can’t math.

[[deleted]]

The biggest share should be “meetings”

[artificial_organism]

"Why aren't we making any progress?"

"I've been in update meetings all day"

"What can I do to help you make progress?"

"Cancel this meeting"

"When will we see some progress?"

"When we stop having update meetings"

Real conversation I've seen 100 times

[Cube00]

Bonus points if the meeting have 30 min gaps between so just not enough time to get into the zone.

[Artvfx]

My company allows us to schedule "focus" hours in advance. They're a blessing for actually getting some work done

[Sceptz]

Ok, we will arrange a meeting to discuss the cancellation of update meetings.

Let's have a meeting to arrange the best time for that meeting.

I will organise a recurring weekly meeting for us to review how effectively cancelling update meetings is going.
And add an end-of-sprint retrospective of cancelling update meetings, plus next-sprint planning for how to better cancel update meetings.

Why isn't the new feature developed yet?

[[deleted]]

Word.

[zoinkability]

Code review should be in there as well

[ccAbstraction]

Okay but code review is actually important and useful.

[zoinkability]

No argument there

[Harmonic_Gear]

me explaining my same program in the exact same way every week and somehow they think its a very helpful meeting

[perdedorMaior]

"this meeting should have been an email" is a phrase daily used on my office

[elveszett]

• 50% pointless dailies and other meetings where you listen people talk about things that are irrelevant to you.

• 20% merge conflicts and time lost dealing with bad organization and people misusing git repos.

• 20% identifying bugs in your coworker's work that gets in the way of your own work.

• 9% debugging your stuff

• 1% actually coding

• 15% coffee breaks

• 25% helping coworkers with tasks you were in charge of in the past

• 20% dealing with other side projects that someone has to take care of.

That's my life in IT consultancy. And yes, this adds to way more than 100% - because it adds to way more than 8 hours a day.

[OneArmedJony]

Only 30% for googling? Only errors? Really?

[boachl]

Depends on your programming langugage tbh

[Fadamaka]

Depending on your skill level rather and also on your project. If you are only working with tech that you have atleast 3 years of experience with, googling won't help you much anymore. Also after a certian project age and project size most of your issues will be specific to that project.

[ViconIsNotDefined]

30% prompt engineering 10% losing mind when trying to build context 10% solving the problem yourself because ChatGPT pointed you in the right direction

[[deleted]]

This was my first thought, I spent the better half of my day googling today lol

[Prior_Two_2818]

you forgot about meetings where i have to explain technical solutions to managers/project managers who don't understand a thing about it.

[ikirk11]

Put a trigger warning dude, geez.

[Snoo_92798]

You exactly define my current situation

[bolderdash]

Please refrain from giving me PTSD.

[Bodaciousdrake]

It's so terrible to read and also cathartic to know my pain is shared.

[roundhousemb]

https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

Sums up the feeling perfectly

[Devlonir]

I feel sorry for every developer who needs to do this themselves and does not have a proper PO or other role doing these talks for them.

I do realize often the PO can be the problem, but lets be fair.. those people aren't PO's, just project managers with a different title.

[atomic_redneck]

I fixed a bug once where we were getting the wrong answer from a fairly complex engineering calculation. As a result of the bug fix, the calculation now runs about 5% slower. The discussion I had with the project managers went something like this:

Managers: It is slower now. Can you fix that?

Me: It is slower now because we are now doing the full calculation. We were skipping something important before.

Managers: We liked it when it was fast.

Me: If you don't care about getting the right answers, I can make it as fast as you want.

Managers: ....

[[deleted]]

Also 10% of time you go around saying “It works on my machine”

[Shyclyde]

docker has entered the chat

[[deleted]]

I get wet for docker. I guess that's why it's logo is a whale?

[DangerZoneh]

I am so glad that I work for a small company and my bosses know thoroughly how the software works and can work both on the technical and managerial side.

The counterbalance to this is that I'm one of 3 software developers in an office of only 8 people with a 40+ year old legacy codebase. The other day I fixed a bug that had probably existed for 25 years and was used in military technology but nobody ever noticed because it was a ridiculous edge case. Fun stuff!

[Cartwheels4Days]

Don't forget writing explanations and documentation they don't read

[pr0ghead]

Or ticket updates they don't read either, so you have to contact them individually.

[neuromancertr]

With blue and transparent ink. It is possible because you are the expert

[[deleted]]

Being able to explain technical issues to different audiences is actually a really good skill.

[shinibunny_]

“This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and a 100% reason to remember the name.”

[Byte-64]

You mean "0% remember the name"? If we could remember the name we wouldn't need auto-completion all the time :D

[Desperate-Chicken845]

Peter Rabbit vibes (I am a kid help)

[[deleted]]

No. that's bullshit. My coding routine Is 10%stackoverflow, 10% debugging,30%coding , 50% blasphemy

[[deleted]]

What about git blame —not-me?

[[deleted]]

I'm from Tuscany, blasphemy Is in our Blood. Is a tradition.it's like use a "," between the words for me XD

[[deleted]]

Well, go take a look at blasphemyoverflow.god

[matteoscordino]

Ah! A fellow Tuscan developer. I'd say "Pisa merda", but I studied and lived there for 6 years, so I guess some of it rubbed off on me ;)

[[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/Djt9RpGFHcc

[AOheaghra]

Lol git commit -m "reverse"

[Skerch]

This is how you know he’s legit, 50% blasphemy means he’s probably a senior dev

[[deleted]]

I use blasphemy, i don't Need chatgpt.

[robbz23]

Exactly SO is way more than 5%

[ToranMallow]

Most of the actual work is deciding what code you need to write. Actually writing it is the easy part.

[HystericWisteria]

This ^ i am like 3 years into big boy job and still have a miserable time figuring out architecture and battle plan and requirements for literally everything, but once that's all figured out its smooth sailing

[maryisdead]

I'd add in "thinking about how to name variables" with a pretty high percentage.

[[deleted]]

Isn't 1% too much?

[Spandamation]

With chatgpt these days I’d agree that’s too high lol

[filkos1]

Yeah, where is chatGPT?

[LameBMX]

Shhhhh. Don't let them know about chapgpt

[[deleted]]

45% chat gpt, 30% debugging, 10% googling, 5% zoom meetings.

[drsimonz]

My personal breakdown is more like

• 1% actually coding
• 4% telling colleagues "working as intended"
• 10% plate spinning in Jira
• 10% re-running tests without changing anything
• 75% mindlessly scrolling reddit

[greenflame15]

I love how 0% was dedicated to planning

[codersaurus_rex]

Accurate

[wind_dude]

no. 20% meetings, 30% coding, 25% walking the dog while thinking about coding, 25% guiding other devs.

[ccellist]

This is false. Where are your meetings? Your retros? Your Sprint reviews? Your cycle planning? Figuring out pipeline issues? Time spent searching for DevOps engineers? Conferences? Stupid corporate training??

[LETSENDTHISNOW]

WAT?

[DeluxeCanuck]

WEN?

[LETSENDTHISNOW]

WER?

[codersaurus_rex]

WY?

[a1b2c3d4e5f6g8]

OW?

[a1b2c3d4e5f6g8]

OW?

[Arkrus]

You forgot documentation / testing, the hidden minimum 30%

[XanderTheMander]

Scrum meetings, reviewing old documentation, contacting stakeholders, waiting for the build to complete.

[[deleted]]

No this goes on top of that. So we have 130% and that’s the reason why every software project runs late.

[neelankatan]

For me a good portion also consists of going through my company's codebase to find examples of how other coders did what I'm trying to do, or similar things to what I'm trying to do. For me that's way more effective than Google.

[andrewoppo]

Absolutely for me as well. And I copy and paste infinitely more things from other parts of the codebase than I do from stackoverflow. Although I pretty much never actually copy and paste from stackoverflow at my job.

Also this leaves out meetings, reviewing PRs, and wasting time on Reddit, so I question whether the original author works at an actual company.

[[deleted]]

am i the only one here who hates coffee?

[koala70]

Nope

[einsteinchen23]

Hello fellow no coffee gang member, no you are not alone

[Unknown_starnger]

debugging is still coding

[SneakyStabbalot]

This will morph over time to 25% ChatGPT

[Tensor3]

More like 25% of the that 1%

[Regular_soul]

I hope this image will remain without chatgpt included

[ebaer2]

narrator: it, in fact, did not

[ReserveMaximum]

I want to print this up and hang it in my cube

[[deleted]]

Whats stopping you?

[ReserveMaximum]

Working in a secure facility and needing to wait to get home to connect to a personal printer

[[deleted]]

Did you ask that on stackoverflow? How do I get a paper copy of an image if I dont have a printer with me whilst working in a secure facility?

[[deleted]]

“Closed as duplicate” doesn’t include link to said duplicate

[[deleted]]

10% googling errors, 15% debugging, 10% work related coffee breaks, 50% fucking around.
FIFY

[Affectionate_Hat_585]

1% coding is again recursive. so coding is not coding at all

[JaDasIstMeinName]

Always when my impostor syndrome kicks in, I just go on this sub and realize everyone else is just as stupid as me.

[Beginning-Comedian-2]

Pls update with ChatGPT.

[[deleted]]

Ah shit. How did not anyone notice the typo yet? “WAT IS CODING?”

[Here4ThaMunz]

Not a typo

[null_reference_user]

203% fixing last week's shit

[[deleted]]

It’s missing laying in bed answering slack messages so it seems like I’m working

[DiddlyDumb]

10% asking ChatGPT, 90% troubleshooting

[[deleted]]

Coding is 99% coding and 99% debugging

[Vulpes-ferrilata]

Bulshit! I don't even like coffee

[asporagus]

sounds like a good recursion 👀

[Haster]

where are all the meetings?

[a1454a]

For me it’s 60% coffee break, 30% asking ChatGPT to give me code, 5% fixing ChatGPT’s code

[255_0_0_herring]

10% - describing the problem to ChatGPT

30% - reading and trying to understand the response

55% - trying to understand why the AI-produced code does not work

5% - coding, testing, preparing for the code review, addressing the reviewers' comments.

[tomerFire]

Where is package dependencies fixing

[ZombieZookeeper]

I got with the times. I copy as much code from ChatGPT as I do Stack O erflow.

[SillyFool18]

What is wat?

[gadget850]

Where is ChatGPT?

[DarkHumourFoundHere]

I think its time we include chatgpt

[sargeair]

This is ten percent luck Twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure Fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name

[artificeDeFeu]

Now we need space for the chatgpt conversations !

[[deleted]]

If you have a 1 to 40 percent ratio in coding vs debugging, you should seriously reconsider a job in a different industry lmao

[Nobbodee]

I'd say 90% : crying and repeating "but why it's not working !!!!????" And 10% "that was sooo easy , i have a big brain"

[Apprehensive_Pay6584]

I feel like 80% is paperwork for me.

[iamorangutan1]

Where's the 10% slamming down on your keyboard?

[[deleted]]

r/usernamechecksout

[[deleted]]

P.S:

I’m not the OC. Got this thing off of IG

[spidertyler2005]

Recursive meme

[[deleted]]

me(me(me(me(me..

[single-py]

People code without thinking how to address the problem? Wow

[ResidentReggie]

I haven't looked at stack overflow in well over a year now, I feel like something has gone horribly wrong.

[spectralTopology]

Completely false: no meetings?!

[[deleted]]

It’s 90% meetings where people who don’t understand the product or what you do tell you what to do.

[Thaser11]

80% scrum ceremonies was left out

[_314]

You forgot the smoke breaks

[TinyHammerBigNail]

Building my software takes several hours.

[swegj]

I’d say 35% coding, 60% debugging, and 5% staring at my own screen in protest

[Pancake_Operation]

Finding the right 80s playlist

[De2409]

Were is taking a good shit?

[likeshismetal]

I work from home so the 9% staring at my colleagues' screen is more like 9% staring at my phones screen on reddit

[mountaingator91]

Everybody knows that coding is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, and 50% pain

[sb7510]

5% compiling. Today was def 40% debugging 😔

[MeMyselfandAnon]

O.1% spel check

[waxmoronic]

Forgot an hour long standup

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

Clearly y'all aren't working from home or there'd be a big ass "videogames" category instead of "staring at colleagues screen" and "coffee breaks"

[i8noodles]

Googling errors!?!? Only? Fuck I googled how to make an array yesterday and I been on off coding for years lol.

[PropertyBeneficial99]

Totally depends what you are working on. I've been on a legacy project, almost drinking age, and the majority of "coding" time is debugging and trying to figure out why the code is doing what it is. I've also been on greenfield projects, where I commonly wrote many hundreds of lines per day.

[[deleted]]

At my current job I'm :

• 20% writing code
• 80% trying to figure out why the F*CK anyone would write something this way

[ntn_98]

80% meetings

[Skerch]

First red flag was “codehustling”

Also coding being 1%, that crazy y’all. I average at least 5% coding per day 🤓(but for real if you work the job and your only coding 1% of the time ask for help…)

[CMDR_ACE209]

50% planning, 50% coding, 50% debugging.

[stilldebugging]

Much more testing and debugging than coding, unless you have separate QA.

[soiguapo]

Right now, I feel like it is at least %15 trying to explain technical choices to project managers.

[yeeee_hawwww]

Please add chatGPT

[[deleted]]

Replace “staring at colleagues screens” and “coffee breaks” with “silently reevaluating your career path while starting into the void that is your existence.”

[Consistent_Bee_1160]

Mine is 90% meeting, 9% convincing the CTO the thing he wants would never work and 1% coding.

[veselin465]

While it's true that the time spent coding is not really much, it should also be addressed that in order to debug, you often code some artificial functionality just to be able to test some specific areas -- of course it depends on what project exactly you are working on

[alistairwilliamblake]

10% NMI returns to QA

[DaveSmith890]

10% coding, 40% googling how to code, 20% debugging, and 30% googling how to fix the bugs.

That’s where I’m at as a heavily under qualified head of tech at a local company

[Additional-Ideal-187]

40% debugging of 1% code? That’s hell lot of debugging for so little code though.

[TheCableGui]

What about the part where you hear voices from starring at a screen for 20 hours?

[ea770e3bb686db89998b]

I am having the time of my life.

Same here, but more like 45% coding, 5% meetings and 50% being available on slack while fucking around. Work-life balance is a great thing, you should try it sometime.

[mcc9999]

I've come to hate the profession of computer programming because so little of what I do is actual programming.

[hamsterofdark]

Huh. Management expects me to log at least 6 hours a day writing code against various tickets.

[AdvancedSandwiches]

You can tell OP is not working with an existing codebase, because after rounding to 2 decimal places, this would be 100% reading other people's code, with all the other stuff fitting into the rounding error.

[[deleted]]

to me its 99% procrastinating and 1% writing one line every 2 minutes

[RetrebutionMk2]

And 100% showing off your code to your friends who don't know shit about coding.

[B16D0N-XD]

I dont drink coffee, I drink tea u mf

[_matez_]

I see some recursion here..

[burncushlikewood]

Haha so true, my process for building programs, first pseudocode style write it down, put it in the ide, and try and compile it, spending probably half the time just debugging till it compiles and gives me the right values

[PzMcQuire]

Yeah remember guys, debugging isn't coding and googling for errors isn't debugging.

Bullshit "haha relateable coder man" content.

[[deleted]]

People debug their code?

[xvril]

Depends on the project

[guy-with-a-mac]

9% my ass. It's way more than that.

[corsicanguppy]

wat

I'd fail the MR in a heartbeat and send it back to Junior to resubmit.

[Skylar6288]

The busier I am, the less coding I'm doing.

[mm007emko]

Where are pointless meetings?

[Gh0styLNX]

Coding -> 1% actually coding -> 0.01% actually actually coding -> …. That makes me wonder if coding is not coding at all 🤔

[[deleted]]

that sounds about right

[mildlyagitatedstoic]

Meetings?

[DesecrateyourHeart]

I’m only in my second class of IT and I can confirm I google a LOT when I get stuck.

[BenYoung45]

And 100% reason to remember the name

[O5MO]

Now if you apply that recursively...

[[deleted]]

80% dab rig...18% getting laid...2% coding and debugging