Ask HN: How much code do you write in your job?

Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write in your job? by gosenx on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:38AM (#38889961)

Sounds like a lot of fun. I work as Platform Engineer so I’m also on call for about 30+ a week sometimes. The only thing I don’t get to do is programming a lot, I mean I do write some Terraform, YML, Go, scripts etc but not the type of coding that you spend a month building something rather than small programs to automate and facilitate our ops work.

I want to shift from ops to systems programming and find a completely new role.

I’m really good at the debugging and diving into new codebases, but companies don’t like the fact that I don’t really have a previous full time coding role.

Happy to ear how things are going for you and how you have grown technically.

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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write in your job? by diarrhea on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:57AM (#38890061)

I am also in the boat of wanting to switch to systems programming. Writing code in Terraform or YAML is soul-sucking to me, but sadly all I get currently. I have previous, full time software engineering experience, so I have “seen the light”, making Terraform/YAML feel that much more like a punishment.

I’m building up Rust skills (1 year in now) to make the jump once that’s more popular. It’s a slightly risky bet (Rust jobs are currently 95% crypto).

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