Re:Challenging projects every programmer should try
by baq on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:55PM
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Yeah, this is a very important realization to make in a career of a software engineer.
Other points to internalize:
- in business, software is made to either earn money or pay less money. All other effects are at best secondary
- code is a liability as much (or more) as it is an asset
- programming is the easy 0-20% of the job of the software engineer, the rest is making sure the right thing gets programmed
- no matter what they tell you it’s a people problem
- software is always broken but it keeps running as long as practitioners are keeping it within the operational envelope
Sudden clarity.
I feel like printing it and putting it next to my workstation, so that I remember this both when doing something fun and when having to work so that my bills get paid.