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Re:Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal? by tryauuum on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:22PM (#46296126)
I don't know. To me, any programmer looks a little insane, no matter of their motivation. Because how can you write code 5 days a week and stay alive?

I do program but I treat is a nessesary evil which has to be done to solve some issue I have. I won't be able to write a codebase which may or may not be deployed in a year

Re:Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal? by ggm on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:03PM (#46296495)
Just tell people you're a mathematician in a logician's role. They'll assume you're a maths teacher, doing amateur magic to make money.
Re:Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal? by almosthere on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:41PM (#46296296)
coding as a job look normal? Right now they would look like an Indian engineer, kind of like me. So if that's not normal, then probably not.
Re:Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal? by mac3n on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:30PM (#46296195)
some of us can pass as human
Re:Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal? by WheelsAtLarge on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:30AM (#46298882)
Not most of the super programmers I have met, they have always seem like they are bit off to me.