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A comment on Ask HN: Do you regret becoming a programmer?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you regret becoming a programmer? by rajeshpant on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:35PM (#18080473)
No regrets in becoming programmer.

But I regret the way programmers are treated in industry these days. It went from a niche profession to industrial worker. Being a programmer these days is similar to a worker working in a car assembly line.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you regret becoming a programmer? by zzzcpan on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:17PM (#18080713)
Yeah, it seems programming as a career sucks. But the ability, skill itself is wonderful, nothing else compares to it.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you regret becoming a programmer? by sova on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:49PM (#18081216)
Very much agree with you here. I have not been able to secure the superb job I dream of yet, but my skills have gotten to the point where a teenage version of myself would definitely ask, "How the hell did you do that?!" =)
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Re:Ask HN: Do you regret becoming a programmer? by abenedic on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:42PM (#18081774)
I think the idea from a corporate perspective has always been the idea of a programmer as an industrial worker. Just as dispensable, and just as replaceable. Luckily reality has not borne that out.
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