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Yeah, there's definitely a lot of people in the same boat as you. I was already getting annoyed with the profession and its CV-driven development, and mostly s
by ben_w 4mo ago
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of people in the same boat as you.
I was already getting annoyed with the profession and its CV-driven development, and mostly saw code as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, but that only means I've not lost a sense of identity: I am absolutely also struggling to figure out what to do next.
- ayayaweird 4mo ago> means to an end rather Is that not what writing code is for? achieving a need? If I want to feel the art or gaze upon my code masterpieces, I'll do that in my own side projects, no?
- ben_w 4mo agoLots of people have very strong opinions about how code should look, often mutually incompatible with each other. Sometimes it's closer to cargo-culting a design pattern or other "best practice" than anything else, doing what they see others do without understanding why, even if they can emit words that are shaped like an explanation. On occasion, such people have made their preferences into my problem. Because I'm relaxed about which style is used so long as it's not actively wrong, I'm also fairly relaxed about LLMs making code in a style I find weird… so long as it's not actively wrong, which it sometimes still is.