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I haven't had _any_ jobs where the programming involved solving hard problems, TBH. The hard part of my job is dealing with people and regulatory environments.
by trenchpilgrim 1y ago
I haven't had _any_ jobs where the programming involved solving hard problems, TBH. The hard part of my job is dealing with people and regulatory environments. The code is basically trivial.
I don't really mind it either, if I want to do something novel I do things on my own.
- pepa65 1y agoThe majority of coding or software engineering jobs are not about solving hard problems. Just implementing stuff, getting ideas to work. I agree that most of the code will be trivial.
- sshine 1y agoI’ve selected for interesting work primarily by working for R&D departments, for sketchy startups, and in niche domains. The cost has been that I don’t have deep domain knowledge that could lead to making a startup myself. And it’s the kind of stuff with few or no examples of anywhere, so no LLM help. For example, building cryptographic primitives for a custom zero-knowledge VM in the VM’s own esoteric assembler language. Nothing closely resembles it.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoYeah, my preference is to have stable, "easy" work so I can have steady income for 5+ years per job, then I do all my weird mad science stuff solo and have full control of the resulting interesting work.