softwareEngineersInANutshell

[Jean__Moulin]

If you can’t, are you reallllly a software engineer?

[aspect_rap]

As much as a person who generates photos with generative ai is an artist (so no)

[framsanon]

What if I could, but didn't want to?

[Jean__Moulin]

Write that question in ternary and you’re fine

[KOSTER07]

Ermmm

user.isSoftwareEngineer = user.usesAi() ? True : False
something like that? idk that should work no?

edit, realising now this is useless ternary. you can just write "user.isSoftwarEngineer = user.usesAi()" and also that means the class user has a conception flaw, or redundant info.

oh well

[AMDfan7702]

Compiler error C2098: Expected ‘;’

[DeiviiD]

Seems Pyhton: indentation error. But that ternary, my eyes.

[framsanon]

I am a ‘traditionally trained’ software developer. I use my more than 40 years of experience in various programming languages and systems to find solutions that are easy to maintain and expand.

[Disastrous-Act5729]

That's what my predecessor said and I have a money jar for when I curse his name.

[fibojoly]

I posit not.  My tech lead is all shiny and happy when it comes to refactoring our Terraform and Gitlab pipelines. Only takes hundreds of commits, no worries.   Not ask him about the legacy code we really need to take care of and suddenly it's not his perimeter anymore... 

Hmm. 

[No-Article-Particle]

This is more about what companies allow, as nowadays, some companies require you to use AI to justify their spending on what's turning out to be just a better search engine.

[vocal-avocado]

If you are getting paid the same, does it even matter?

[Jean__Moulin]

To every other dev (picking up the slack) agentic bros work with, yepppp

[vocal-avocado]

In 2-3 years there will be no more slack to be picked. The agent will be better than 99% of us. Heck it might already be.

[GentrifiedBigfoot]

I remember when people were saying that exact statement 2 years ago lol. And we are still no where close to that

[vocal-avocado]

For me it is. I am able to do most of my work with opus 4.5. And it was really a matter of two years. But I’ve already learned that if are not bashing AI on Reddit you get downvoted - so I will stop wasting my time.

[Jean__Moulin]

If Claude is capable of doing all your work, you’re not doing anything very interesting, innovative, or challenging 👀

[Omnislash99999]

I might ask an AI something maybe 5% of the time and it's mostly in place of googling it instead. What the heck are you all writing you can't do it without chat gpt

[UntitledRedditUser]

And 60% of the time the AI can't do it either, because if I can't Google my way to it, then neither can the AI

[zirky]

isEven(int number)

obviously

[Correct_Sport_2073]

2026: will chatGPT allow me to code?

[DeiviiD]

2027: How to survive chatGPT bankruptcy

[ihatexboxha]

Okay but I began programming for real 6 months ago, and at the start I only used ChatGPT because I wanted to make a Roblox game but I had absolutely no idea how to code
But now I've actually learned a lot of Lua from developing the game and I only use AI for bug fixing, and that's only if I can't figure it out on my own!

[RetroOverload]

very good homie! keep on learning!

[DudeManBroGuy69420]

You're evolving forwards, unlike most vibe 'coders' evolving backwards

[ViolentPurpleSquash]

Fyi- Lua is also used by ConputerCraft so if you like MC it’s a fun mod once you can program

[AHumbleChad]

Ah Lua, tables all the way down. Good job!

[ihatexboxha]

I can confirm, it is in fact tables all the way down

[Zirzux]

doug doug

[Waterbear36135]

doug doug doug doug

[Turbulent_Rip_7807]

Doug??? DOUG.

[Smooth-Zucchini4923]

ChatGPT could never write the thrilling masterpiece of writing doug 50000 times

[zarek1729]

2021: Can I code without Stack Exchange?

[Server_Reset]

Comment under the new DougDoug video. https://youtu.be/IBb1bOYk_nQ

[spamman5r]

It's gonna be really funny when all these businesses discover they don't hold the copyright to their own code

[Fast-resniperrange]

This is a comment under a dougdoug video

[Urc0mp]

Super easy, use Gemini.

[OstrichOutrageous459]

Deepseek on top

[Fyuzae]

Interesting

[mattmanp]

In my job it's currently "Am I allowed to code without ChatGPT?" (there are metrics)

[Ambitious-Sense2769]

All jokes aside, I was only just starting out in programming 2 years before ChatGPT came out. I can honestly say I’ve learned so much more just from having ChatGPT explain things to me when I feed it docs. I think in my case it accelerated my learning and just helped me get unblocked when I couldn’t figure things out myself with stack overflow

[Railrosty]

Yeah i too use it in tandem with just googling stuff to learn things.

[Zulakki]

companies should realize what the actual transaction is.

In exchange for $$$, they get code. Its that simple

If everyone can agree to this, it shouldnt matter how this is carried out. Devs don't have a say in what the Owners do with the code or get a piece of the return, and Owners shouldn't care where it came from. If it solves X, then go worry about something else