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As a self taught programmer with a Communication Studies degree, this definitely resonates. The ability to articulate the problem in code is kind of the startin
by shayneo 1y ago
As a self taught programmer with a Communication Studies degree, this definitely resonates. The ability to articulate the problem in code is kind of the starting point for most productive development work.
- 77pt77 1y agoAny experienced programmer will be able to tell what kind of person another programmer is just by the way they write their code. Code written by programmers with humanities backgrounds is easily identifiable as being of bad quality. Kind of like vibe coding meets programming by accident, before vibe coding was really a term. It's a faux pas to even mention this IRL, but good coders know what's up. Those "coders" usually get promoted to people managers, which is usually what they want anyway because their self-worth relies on abusing others to mitigate the correct self-perception they have of being "inferior". The problem is, things need to be solved and vibe+accident programming can only go so far. But fear not, they can always scapegoat whoever solves the problems, because if they were not to blame, how could they know what was up or even feel the need to correct it?
- daedrdev 1y agoThis is a high level of bias and generalization about an enormous group of people with varied backgrounds and experiences, not to mention selection bias as you don't know many good coders backgrounds who may in fact be from humanities. Even if many of the bad coders are those who were in humanities and don't have coding experience because they just entered the field (because once you get it you are no longer a humanities background)