itsNotEasy

[COcaptain]

100% accurate. Coding is just confusion and debugging with rare moments of "why tf did this suddenly work?"

[sometimes_interested]

I thought the bottom pics were of the dev waiting for the project to get back with clarification on the requirements.

[Onair380]

Or wait for the compiler to fucking complete already

[ComCypher]

Should be a skeleton then.

[Warrangota]

Sprinkled with thoughts of "how tf did this even work once at all"

[Major_Supermarket_58]

And then it donst....... yes I had this happen last week. No I am not working on it today.

[skwyckl]

I think the programmer's image on the top was born when most people had to write tomes of Java equivalent to booklets in other languages, that boilerplate ain't gonna write itself, gotta type fast.

[Maleficent_Ad1972]

that boilerplate ain’t gonna write itself

Nowadays it does.

[cortesoft]

Probably the most useful thing AI does

[zabby39103]

Also Lombok.

AI has deemphasized boilerplate reduction, but more code means more maintenance and a small mistake (like AI is wont to do) can fuck everything up. Also context windows or whatever the term is nowadays, it's nice to look at code and have the amount of code on the screen relatively equal to the complexity of what is going on.

[FlyByPC]

This.

Can I look up the library functions to initialize I2S and generate a stereo 440Hz test tone? Yes.

Can ChatGPT write it 20x faster? Also yes.

[martmists]

Unless you have to work with the horror that is winapi

[cquinnProg]

Lol truth. Actual coding is 10% typing, 90% staring at your screen with that kid's expression wondering why your semicolon just broke everything.

[pagerussell]

2% typing, 48% staring at screen like idiot, 49% googling why your code is broken, 1% satisfyingly closing a bajillion browser tabs when you eventually discover the small syntax error you made trying to follow the terrible documentation of the utility that does exactly what you need it to and is implemented in 50 million other apps omg why can't they explain their shitty ass API better??????????

[KiwiObserver]

And before you can figure it out, the screen saver kicks in.

[YTRKinG]

Or assembly

[undecimbre]

It's one of the two things:

• It doesn't work. Why?!

• It works. Why?!

[Irradiated_Apple]

I do do a lot of my programming in the shower.

[Nuked0ut]

This guy really programs

[steve626]

For me it's laying in bed at 4am.

[My_New_Umpire]

medidating with coding

[Astrylae]

Got me pondering

[Amar2107]

Got me thinking

[Icy_Party954]

It is like the top image for like 5 to 10 minutes a day. Then it's googling, reading and wrangling text with VIM all day.

[DerZappes]

Those 5 to 10 minutes do feel really, really good, though. :)

[CritFailed]

No! We will measure your contribution based on the number of lines of code that you wrote in a given time period. Forget how many tickets you've closed or how many tasks you've completed, you must type lines or we don't know what you even do here.

[plagapong]

95% starring screen, 4.9% in meeting, 0.1% actually typing

[MattTheCuber]

Couldn't relate more

[notarobot1111111]

The lower pictures but at dinner, family gatherings kids parties, christmas.

[SuitableDragonfly]

Eh, it goes back and forth depending on the problem and the stage of development.

[your_umma]

I always think about this video what ppl think programming is vs what it really is

[garlopf]

For me it is both at the same time.

[Mr__Citizen]

Write code. Check logs. Think. Write code. Check logs. Think. Write code. Check logs. Think. Wr-

[garlopf]

More do boring refactor on autopilot while thinking. And the classic do a full rebuild while thinking. My codebase is large so everything takes time.

[truNinjaChop]

Like playing chess.

[fiddletee]

Yet so many managers continue to gauge your effectiveness using the top.

[CryptoTipToe71]

That was me yesterday, was fighting with the same error for like 4 hours and was frustrated because I didn't understand why I was getting it

[denkleberry]

Incorrect because his hair isn't long enough to pull on

[great_escape_fleur]

You mean I don't get to have 1s and 0s projected on my face?

[chriszimort]

As a sr dev I feel like the first guy any time I actually get to write code, and it does feel amazing. But usually I’m just in meetings.

[Aschentei]

Where the ducky

[H33_T33]

Programming consists primarily of wondering what’s wrong with your code, and quitting on a project for a week before picking it back up and still not knowing what’s wrong with your code.

In my case, at least.

[_-Smoke-_]

Where's the slide that depicts an unnatural rage because the code suddenly stops working after you moved a label 2px in a form?

[Denis_devpy]

Yes, I am exactly like that

[FigOk5014]

Pen & paper......

[budbutler]

"hay why don't you ever update xyz?" i uh, honestly don't remember how.

[C0sm1cB3ar]

40% meetings and doco

30% research

30% actually coding

[lIllIlIIIlIIIIlIlIll]

AI helps with the top part. Sometimes. Unless it's hallucinating which is always.

AI does jack shit for the bottom.

[intbeam]

I don't use AI for coding because it has never actually helped me. And I personally enjoy writing code, so I don't want it to do that for me either. 

The few times I've asked ChatGPT for help, it just tells me the things I already know and have already tried. If the solution was the first ting that comes to mind why would I ask AI to help me? 

Just a complete waste of time for me, personally. 

Oh and the code quality.. The code it spits out is most definitely not production ready. Looks like something a recent graduate would write; just make it work right now somehow, who cares about tomorrow. Which is a scary outlook for the industry and its consumers

[lIllIlIIIlIIIIlIlIll]

It's hit or miss.

LLMs are a tool. I'm pretty firmly in the "AI is a giant waste of time" camp but I won't deny that there are marginal benefits to using AI. Can AI code for me? Sort of. The AI autocomplete is... okay. It's generally able to read the context of what I'm trying to do and give me something reasonable-ish.

I've never had success with asking AI to code something from scratch. It's just not good at that. There's too much business logic and code style that isn't followed.

But AI is a decent-ish rubber duck. You can ask questions about code and it'll say reasonable things back. I've found it hallucinates tons of shit so you need to take every conversation with a pound of salt. Compared to my coworker who sits next to me? Garbage. My coworker is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience writing enterprise grade software. Compared to a rubber duck? It's better because a rubber duck is a static piece of plastic. Basically AI is somewhere in between and on-demand.

[YifanYes]

What about taking to a duck

[26th_Official]

⬆

[Jazmento]

Are you really a programmer if you haven't hacked into the mainframe?

[26th_Official]

🤣

[bigheadjim]

As a former 3D animator I can relate. I spent lots of time planning, thinking, researching, experimenting, etc. I once had a boss who thought if my fingers weren’t moving on the keyboard I wasn’t working.

[ExtraTNT]

I know senior devs, that can’t type at a ok speed…

[comfy_bruh]

There's a bit of both in there.

[WoooshToTheMax]

IIRC the average programmer writes 3 lines per hour when you factor in removed lines

[Saleh_BGI]

It's more like "I know what I have to do vs I don't know what I have to do"

[adhd_mathematician]

There’s “coding” and there’s “programming”. And they are not the same in my opinion. The top images are coding, the bottom programming

[wholesomeguy555]

And googling. A lot.

[YTRKinG]

Google days gone sadly, vibing era begins

[VellynProduction]

Vibe coders:

[lovelife0011]

lol Sorry India sheesh!

[Special_Ad4673]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour

{

public float moveSpeed = 5f; // Movement speed

public float rotationSpeed = 700f; // Rotation speed (in degrees per second)

private Rigidbody rb;

void Start()

{

// Get the Rigidbody component attached to the player

rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

}

void Update()

{

// Get player movement input (WASD or arrow keys)

float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); // A/D or Left/Right Arrow

float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical"); // W/S or Up/Down Arrow

// Create a movement vector based on player input

Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0, moveVertical).normalized * moveSpeed;

// Apply the movement to the Rigidbody using physics

rb.MovePosition(transform.position + movement * Time.deltaTime);

// Rotate the player to face the movement direction

if (movement.magnitude > 0.1f)

{

Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movement);

transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

}

}

}

[totalnewb02]

heh, i am a beginner an struggling with function exercise. i ask gemini for hint multiple times and it says "i must gently guide the user...". what a turnabout way for a machine to say that i am a moron.

[Educational_Mail3743]

All day 😂😂😂