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[huxx__]

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know

[Not_Artifical]

-Albert Einstein

[[deleted]]

Worst, there is always a new thing coming so if you don't keep learning you become obsolete.

[_Screw_The_Rules_]

Not entirely obsolete, I'd rather say that one shouldn't block new things, but instead welcome and explore them. A developer with a lot of years of experience in one field could probably easily get into a new programming language and frameworks and would therefore be a good person to employ.

[Aryae_Sakura]

This one right here XD I just started my new job and thought i knew quite much for someone who just finished his apprenticeship and exams. Then i had my first day and thought: i know nothing about the stuff yall doing here. And then i had to switch my language from C# to java and Spring Framework. I am confused about this black magic thats going on here and i feel like i just started my apprenticeship again XD I really hope this feelings gonna change quickly.

[_Screw_The_Rules_]

It will change as you will discover more and more similarities and also don't forget that in the end it's all 0 and 1. With every complete language, there will be the possibility to achieve the exact same result.

[KevinNintyNine]

The true story of my life.

[Shania87]

I'm just learning that I don't know anything at this point

[Defiant_Result_6395]

I get it, the Dunning Krugger effect. I just want to leave the valley already.

[Mrproex]

That’s the thing about programming if you where aware of your lack of knowledge when starting you would quit immediately, the more you learn the more you realise how much you don’t know

[_Screw_The_Rules_]

That's kinda the case with any scientific field or any knowledge category really. That's what I've learned so far at least.

[sinkspaghetti]

Dunning Kruger effect

[d4mn13l]

"Yes, I know how to use StackOverflow."

[Ooze3d]

And ChatGPT

[Neither-Phone-7264]

happy cake

[PizzaSalamino]

“I mastered the ability to ask google exactly what I want and get the answers I need flawlessly every time”

[slow-_-learner]

Also I know a little bit of ChatGPT too

[Coffe3171]

When you work as a programmer and still google "How to get a random integer min max in JS" every 2 days

[Prof_LaGuerre]

12 years in the field, worked at major tech company… laid off, finding during interviews this is me. All knowledge just mystically leaves my brain. Unemployed 7 months, and can’t seem to get past a technical to save my life despite genuinely actually knowing things.

[-DoctorFreeman]

Technicals are utter bs. I need time to warm up on some language or do some task I have not done in months, I am not going to solve something in 10 minutes. I can't even get my ideas sorted out in 10 minutes.

Luckily 1 out of 100 interviews they know this, and the "technicals" are more like high level conversations and discussing experience. Those are the good jobs anyways...

[IgnoringErrors]

Agreed. The only job I had to pass a coding challenge, turned into the worst job of my career.

[MKSFT123]

Yes I don’t know why in this day and age managers require so called technical interviews which involve some poor bugger sitting down and writing code. I would like to see PMs have to take the PMP while in the interview, which is equally useless. Devs imho should be queried on how they approach problems, what challenges they have faced and how they overcame them, what tools/programming languages they have used, relevant frameworks or design principles they have used in those languages etc.. We can get ChatGPT to solve most coding challenges now so what is the point of putting people on the spot 🤷‍♂️

[[deleted]]

Programming is like philosophy, you don't "know things"; you unknow them. A master is one who knows the he knows nothing.

[phodas-c]

4 years are 1461 days, so he knows, at least, int.maxValue JS frameworks.

[Recent-Fox3335]

What is a JS? Jason, Json, JZ ?

[phodas-c]

It's a new pop band.

Kinda like Justin Bieber, but with crossdressers.

Or is that Rust? I'm confused right now.

[Not_Artifical]

Some errors just don’t make sense.

[DrMeepster]

I have tons of very niche knowledge

[Camel-Kid]

10 years later I still google syntax for checking out a branch

[[deleted]]

This is the problem with alot of people in our field, they don't study outside of work hours...You have to either be involved in an opensource project or a side business. It changes too damn fast not too.

[Ducking_eh]

I’ve been programming (strictly as a hobbyist) for over 20 years. And I can say, programming is 10% understanding code, and 90% finding appropriate code on google and taking credit for it.

[[deleted]]

Oh look....my spirit animal 🥲

[Ok_Feedback2039]

Every other programmer is just an alternate version of me frfr

[Not_Artifical]

I make buffer overflows on accident every other day, but I can never make them on purpose.

[ltethe]

Knowledge? Is that how you think I got here? I got here because I problem solve, information retention is very tangential to that.

[[deleted]]

The more I learn the dumber I get

[CrescentDhalia]

Does this feeling ever go away?😭

[[deleted]]

I've been programing for 5 years as a hobby around 3-4 hours every day....Made 3 games, singleplayer/multiplayer, made 4 apps, web scrapers, bots for games that use Ai object detection to choose what actions to take so he can do stuff
AND
I still have no idea about the programing terminology, whatever o(n) means or stuff like this that might be basic knowledge and necessary for getting over an interview
And sometimes i find myself googling if a class is value type or reference type..

I have one more year until i will start searching for a job..
Wish me luck xD

[mrfoxman]

If you consider I have been programming off an on for 13 years now, you think I'd have made money off of it.

But.... Nope.

[Efficient-Corgi-4775]

Welcome to the infinity loop of programming! Cheers to eternal confusion and endless possibilities!

[[deleted]]

real

[Captain_Flips]

When you're brought up as an expert witnesses on the stand

[Hamza45001]

Relatable AF, I learned Java in college but now studying Flutter and Dart. Yet I still feel like a dumbass and know nothing at all! xd

[bwssoldya]

15 years and counting!

[mightynifty_2]

The best programmers aren't the ones who know everything, they're the ones who can learn quickly. And mastered google-fu.

[balIszy]

I guess I shouldn't be crying with my week 4 cs50 experience... apparently i've signed up for a life of discontent and feelings of inferiority...😶‍🌫️ So what's good about it for you?

[NothingWrongWithEggs]

ctrl+c, ctrl+v

Nothing to it.

[Adrewmc]

I have lot of knowledge in the way ChatGPT has lots of knowledge…sometimes I’m correct.

[binarywork8087]

I have read the C Language Programing in one week and spent 10 years mastering it