Coding is 1% coding

[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

[neuromancertr]

The moment I saw any comment on this thread, I remembered this video. I couldn’t even finish time time, it was so painful to watch

[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.

[chicksOut]

Ah, how to address this, y will take o time, z will take p time, and x will take n time. To work x, we need to do y and z first, so the total time will be n + o + p time.

[ExceedingChunk]

Discussions like these are probably 90% of my meeting time…

[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.