> You may not learn "programming" this way, but all of these are going to be useful skills when you work as a programmer. It seems my life as a programmer is f

> You may not learn "programming" this way, but all of these are going to be useful skills when you work as a programmer. It seems my life as a programmer is fighting with tools, fixing bugs in legacy code in a myriad of languages (including C++), reviewing code, resolving merge conflicts, configuring CI/CD, writing tests, benchmarking, monitoring... And it's not like we can choose the programming languages we want anyway. Learning different paradigms and languages is all good, but it's really a tiny part of our job.