The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer - Prime Reacts

(plus i make courses for them)

This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer.

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By: Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira

[davidstraight]

As an electrician who has a computer science degree. Using binary search to find a ground fault in a fire alarm system is quite handy.

[neonguts]

Seems crazy to me that every time someone is complaining about software engineering its almost always complaining about web dev. Most of us over here that are not interacting with that mess of a world are content enough with the job. Web dev needs to slow down and stop inventing frameworks to built on top of frameworks to fix the issues present in the initial framework.

[coin]

0:15 gotta say the American date format is the weird one. It's not smallest to largest, not largest to smallest, it's some inconsistent in-between

[JP-hrxq]

The reason software is worse now than back in the 80's is because it has grown more complex, but instead of having experts in one area, one guy is supposed to have a mid-level grasp of everything. Like me. I know C# very well, but I am only a noob at cloud architecture, front-end stuff, DevOps and networking. But I am the final authority (and I get blamed) for everything. It's a lot of responsibility for one guy. I can't specialise in everything. That's literally the opposite of a specialist.

[asdfmonstrosity]

"of being a software engineer". immediately descends into webdev-only world

[Sekhmet]

Modern CSS is easy. I remember back in the day if you wanted a simple box with round corners you had to create a 3x3 html table, export 4 gifs for each corner, use 1x1 pixel transparent gifs for empty spaces and struggle with ie6 and Netscape rendering quirks. Fun times.

[wrathnut]

Prime confuses an electrician with an electrical engineer.

[erne]

I have been doing this programming thing professionally for 60% of my whole life and 100% of my adult life. 29 years in total. A couple of years ago, my bosses suggested that I "grow" into a manager position. The idea of spending my whole day in meetings talking to other managers didn't sound productive. I politely declined. I probably left some money on the table, but you cant put a price on mental health and professional fulfillment. One thing I have noticed is that those engineers that went into management lost most of their skills in a matter of a couple of years.

[DylanMatthewTurner]

1:25 Prime that's an electrician not electrical engineering
EDIT: Source - I have a degree in electrical engineering

[nation]

Protip to learn CSS: dont fucking use a framework or library. Its actually very easy to use in 2025.

[bob_kazamakis]

Description of CSS floats: 10/10
Description of Electrical engineering: 0/10

Don’t quit your webdev career, Prime.

[mariusj]

Totally feel that. I just got thrown into a WooCommerce WordPress project—haven’t touched WordPress in like 5 to 10 years and remember exactly nothing. But hey, one of the directors at the consulting firm I work for pitched me as a senior software engineer. Apparently that means I should have every framework I’ve ever touched stored in long-term memory, ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. Sure, no problem, let me just re-download 2012-me.

[Jim-ps]

If you pause at 1:49 it looks like prime drew a Picasso-esque style face. Bravo sir.

[PatternShift]

Funny how people complain loudly about how horrible everything is in software but then shout you down if you ever suggest doing something different than they’re used to…

[ThisIsLiam-mj]

" you'll also need CSS. It'll take you a lifetime to learn " The publisher should have at least have read his post once again to understand this sounds hilarious

[casual.dojo.]

Dude, your logic is solid and your generosity when reading critique and commentary/education in your tube videos is rock solid. Thank you! Wish you would talk about AI security more, as it's real, even workspace pro editions don't allow deleting prompts, (lots of NIST breaking black box issues) and a bit of a mess of prompt clutter, imho. -- Thanks for your high energy humor yet rock solid balanced work around analyzing all levels of modern programming from starter coding to full stack.

[leversofpower]

“You if can’t touch the backend “ you need to flirt more.

[jacobblomquist]

As a principal engineer who recently changed course and became a VP level manager i can tell you why the best engineers usually become managers. Its because someone who knows what they are doing needs to push back against the business bros. Otherwise they will get to dictate what engineers do and really good engineers will be managed out of their job.

[Swdh_Fs]

very minor nitpick:
I'm an electrical engineer. you described what an electrician does (which shockingly [pun intended] an electrician needs a license while i really don't). electrical engineers would design the circuitry that interfaces with the cat6 cable and the signal protocols that go over that cable (and computer engineers design how we should interpret those signals)

not that it really matters, but always kind of a pet peeve when I say "I study electrical engineering" to someone and they start talking about their household electrical problems. of course I listen anyway cuz I'm a nerd that loves electronics but that's beside the point! haha

[taylor-worthington]

Thank you for highlighting clearfix. You gotta fix the world by sanitizing one work of art at a time. Not only that, but who needs to sit and watch a two hour movie, when it can be 10 minutes, like Requiem for a Dream - one of my favorite roadtrip movies, right up there with Uncle Buck but I can watch the whole thing on the way to work. And I can feel all warm and fuzzy inside by the time I get there. Ready to take on the day.