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Wow, I'm sorry, but programming is not that demanding. Theoretical CS work can be, but the typical programmer is working on maintaining a crud app, especially a

• sotojuan 11y ago
  I'd say only the interviews have become demanding!
• geebee 11y ago
  Is it just me? I find it unbelievably demanding. I think writing even relatively simple web apps almost always turns into something mind numbingly difficult. The amount of extremely dense material you have to read and ingest, the number of things you have to stitch together, all of which claim to be easy but in fact require deeper understanding because they never quite do what you need them to, the abstraction of what you have to understand… and then, on top of it, almost nothing is greenfield, so you have to go down a really deep and dark rabbit hole of someone else's highly intricate logic. What can I say? I consider it to be one of the hardest things I've done. I have no idea how people find it easy, but clearly some do. A lot of the horrendous complexity in our field comes from churn. But hey whatever the vector, it is (and of course this is just my opinion) hellaciously demanding. Just a quick note, my post here is intended as a narrow response to the specific claim that programming is not demanding, not the general comment tree.