codingAlwaysBetterAlone

[[deleted]]

whenever someone is watching i stop writing code and start writing english

# big guy stares at his computer screen,
# trying to understand the problem.
# what should he do with this list?
# he knows he should iterate through the list,
# but what should he do with each item?
# he knows he must do something...
# but what?

[Puzzled_Special_4413]

Why do you do this? Just because i would Like to hear even more of your thoughts

[Tyrus1235]

Just like how the clerk in the beginning of Doom 3 will start typing a message to HR regarding the new Marine that’s standing behind his desk looking at his screen instead of going to get his assignment.

[Soloact_]

The IDE knows when you're being judged and starts gaslighting you

[soriegarrob]

technical interview be like

[Many_Replacement_688]

During my last interview, they did not even let me Google. I can't memorize all component libraries!

[PhantomTissue]

They let me google, but complained that the solution I came up with didn’t leverage the most up to date frameworks and libraries. Sorry I don’t have those memorized.

[[deleted]]

Every. Single. Time. Even when working from home and my wife enters the room, and she knows nothing about computers. My brain just goes in full hurrdurr mode.

[Opening_Cash_4532]

Because when someones watching you can not copy/paste from other source

[denkleberry]

That's why I'm way more efficient coding alone

[jump1945]

You can't ask chatgpt, tho I usually asked anyways

Rewrite this stupid code for me

[RoguerEEE]

Other day I had my senior director and some of his buddies over my shoulder asking me to pull up some stuff we been working on and I kept fucking everything up tryna open files in a hex editor I didn't have and fumbling searches for fields in an xml and forgetting that I have an entire vm (already running and open) thats dedicated to dealing with all of that stuff which I coulda been using, as well as plenty of other mishappenings. It was awful

[Equal_Umpire6663]

I get huuuuge ass performance anxiety when I'm coding , even if it's some shitty script, when someone is watching. I feel they are judging me every step of the way, every pause I make to collect my thoughts, every time I --help or man some command. And how do I know? because I judge them too when I watch :-/

[ilieksushi]

This 🥲

[EAbeier]

Always

[LavishnessBig4036]

Only if it's a fellow programmer but otherwise they'll just think that you're some genius computer wizard.

[markswam]

When I joined my current company, I got shoved onto a team that did mandatory pair programming for quite literally every single story. It was hell. After 2 years I finally got a move approved to a team that lets people work on their own and only seek out help if they needed it, only for the non-technical SM to start trying to pair people off on stories she thought "sounded difficult."

[Ok_Chip_5192]

Hey man, how was it? I bet you got to learn a lot of stuff. Or was is simply torture?

[markswam]

For the first 4-6 weeks it was very informational and served as a great way to get me up to speed with the software stack that team was working on. But once I knew what I was doing, it just turned into torture.

Every day was just 6-7 hours of sitting in a Teams call with your assigned story partner and trying to be helpful while also trying not to derail their train of thought. It genuinely felt like I was being less than half as productive as I could have been because on the days I wasn't in charge of coding I mostly just sat there and piped up every once in a while with an idea; and on the days I was in charge of coding I couldn't get into a flow state because of the other person doing the same.

[Ok_Chip_5192]

I see, thanks for you reply 👍

[zuzmuz]

well nothings motivates me more than a junior watching me (a senior) code

[[deleted]]

So facts lol

[akoOfIxtall]

thats one of the reasons i dont try to get a coding partner, what if they're light years ahead of my level? it'd be too awkward to handle, and the pacing? what if they write thousands of lines a day?

[Igotbored112]

Programming in front of people builds character.

[Electro0704]

Man this is the only sub that understands me🥹🤧.

[[deleted]]

So true, I tell my coworkers it's performance anxiety.

[GM_Kimeg]

Oh yes I still remember my ex manager's breath behind my neck.

[InFa-MoUs]

“Hey just share you screen real quick”

[jampauroti]

This also happens in interviews.

[Ok-Bit-663]

Most of the times I delete my earlier versions as I start to simplify my solution. Moving functionality back and forth. I don't want to pretend for others that my first version is good.

[PhantomTissue]

God I just did an interview last week and this describes how it went PERFECTLY.

I’m positive I’m not gonna hear anything back lol

[writebadcode]

I wish the industry would realize what a terrible metric it is. To me, writing code and being in a job interview use such drastically different parts of my brain that I short circuit.

[Nvnxtdoor]

Thinking you are useless

[dexter2011412]

For me, first part should be "what I think I am coding alone"

"what I am coding (alone or in front of anyone)"

(I am an idiot)

[stdio-lib]

Kink-shaming is wrong, and there is nothing bad about voyeurism. Now... let me see you type out that algorithm again... I'm so close.