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I don't think I'm a really good programmer. I just think I'm capable of CRUD. I have a friend who thought he was a really good programmer because he worked on c
by melvinroest 7y ago
I don't think I'm a really good programmer. I just think I'm capable of CRUD. I have a friend who thought he was a really good programmer because he worked on clang and created LLVM extensions and stuff and knows a lot about C++.
He came back from that a little, not much, but a little.
I wonder how you were useless and why you couldn't see that beforehand. Because I would like to be capable of diagnosing whether I'd be useless for the first 3 years.
As in: what am I not seeing?
- BurningFrog 7y agoThe things I didn't understand that I suspect are universal are 1. It's not about writing code that works. That's the bare minimum. The real game is writing readable and maintainable code. 2. I had no clue that the most important thing isn't writing the code, but to work well as a team. Also, I was just plain inexperienced. I had written a fair amount of code, but nothing like what you learn from doing in 40h/week, year after year. Raw talent is good, but it can't beat raw talent + experience.
- melvinroest 7y agoAh, this makes sense. It makes sense in the way that in some interviews the conversations were quite candid and they said the exact same things. Except that it was spread over weeks or a long conversation as opposed to 2 simple bullet points in a HN comment ;-)