What do programmers actually do?

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[MRC]

Debugging is like you're the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.

[gregforgotmylastname]

"Are you a programmer?"
"Yes."
"So what do you do?"
"I program."
"What else can you do?"
"Copy paste error messages into google."

[firenationfiles]

10% coding, 20% debugging, *70% googling*

[photosinensis]

What do programmers do?

Mostly, we shitpost on Reddit.

[Dojan]

"Do software engineers get banned from talking to customers?"
Man. Most software engineers I know would be absolutely thrilled to not have to talk to customers.

[Binizh]

The best part of programming is when the software finally comes together and runs seamlessly. Ouuu that feels 😁

[mastercode]

me when coding :
1% code
50 % browse in stackoverflow for soultion
49% debuggin

edit: thanks for likes

[CharlieZalidar]

Watching this while procrastinating on a programming project

[FinaISpartan]

Start projects not because they're easy, but rather because they thought it would be easy. Furthermore, they live off of coffee and spend 90% of their time on stackoverflow or reddit.

[gregsettle]

After 20+ years programming, I'll say the two hardest things about programming is getting useful info from users and keeping managers, especially VPs, from trying to add to specs during development.

[robj]

I’m a slot machine/iOS app programmer and I’ll tell you what we do: we drink coffee and stare blankly for hours at lines of code on a computer screen before realizing we forgot to add a “}” somewhere.
!!!😡😡🥴🥴🤯🤯

[MarkSwope]

They stare off into space for a long time, then they type something. Repeat.

[sjoervanderploeg]

What programmers do: read lots of documentation :(

[EdadTace]

This is all wrong.


I mostly just complain about other people's code.

[ffKingcreole]

Damn, you said "think of a problem you wanna solve" and my brain was like "world peace" this is gonna be difficult xD

[robj]

I'm a hardware/software engineer and I do it for the challenge. But a word of caution; NEVER let the customer have direct access to the engineer or the product modification requests will be ENDLESS

[denisblack]

tldr: programmers just understand the basics, they google everything else

[sgtdopeaf]

Memorize r u serious. We google everything and thank god for stackoverflow

[Psi]

The "you have to work alone to work best" line is more of a misunderstanding. You have to get some work done in a day, like in any job. The thing with programming is that, if you're interrupted it can take you 10-15 minutes to get back into the right head-space and remember exactly where you were up to so you can continue coding. So if colleges keep visiting you every 15min for a 30sec chat, or even just ask you a question, you get zero done the entire day. Which is why you need to have at least some blocks of time without interruptions to get work done.

[umadbroyo]

My CS professor just tells me that we programmers are better at using