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Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by lovich »

cogman10 wrote: post #65
Kerrick wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Somehow we were better at using remote tools while literally in the same office than some teams are at using them now while fully remote. I couldn't agree more. I pushed to get the place I worked for to use Slack when it first launched, moving us off AIM (ha!). Our use of Slack when we shared an office in the twenty-teens was so much better than the use I've seen of Slack/competitors on fully-remote teams. I wonder…

I can't speak for everyone, but I'd say that I've noticed that younger devs simply do not chat. My team rooms are pretty dead. I'll send stuff there but by and large the team simply doesn't use chat functions.

They, for every team I’ve ever managed, have an off company owned systems chat on shit like slack or discord where they are roasting the fuck out of you.

I’ve managed to be invited or told of them after ingratiating myself to the teams, or more often, after quitting and getting invited as one of the “good ones”

They all know that every word on company shit is being monitored

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by threecheese »

What does it say about me, that I was SURE his article was going to be admitting out loud that we are engineering ourselves into obsolescence, a lot of us are really enjoying it, and nobody is seriously discussing how afraid we should be for our families and future. I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it. Worse, I’m afraid to THINK it, like a cognitive dissonance while Claude writes module after module for me. I am enjoying the hell out of it, I’ve done nothing else for dozens of months, and I feel that hence I am/developers are in a unique position to understand what type of hell - or heaven - our society might experience in the next five years. Shouldn’t we be openly discussing how we can leverage this foreknowledge?

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by lovich »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #88
kasey_junk wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve never worked _anywhere_ where reporting someone to HR was anything but negative impacting for your prospects at the company. And I’ve worked at lots of places in many dimensions (company size, industry, age, etc)

This usually applies to Big Bank.

Is that a dynamic they have? I haven’t worked at Big Bank but I’ve worked in finance a few times and at those places and other industries I’ve worked in reporting anything to HR wouldn’t necessarily get direct consequences but you would permanently be on their radar and have to work to rule after that

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by gblargg »

NikxDa wrote: post #3

I appreciate the author being vulnerable like this in a public setting. It's easy to see why it would be scary, especially since admitting being wrong or not knowing something can easily be turned into questioning one's overall competence. I wish we'd be more open about our flaws and knowledge gaps in general. I think we'd all benefit.

The "why I was afraid to admit it" is by far the best part of this. It gives a lot more insight and ideas to combat it.

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

threecheese wrote: post #102

What does it say about me, that I was SURE his article was going to be admitting out loud that we are engineering ourselves into obsolescence, a lot of us are really enjoying it, and nobody is seriously discussing how afraid we should be for our families and future. I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it. Wo…

> I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it.

Dude, your employer is toxic AF. Look for a new job starting today.

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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threecheese wrote: post #102

What does it say about me, that I was SURE his article was going to be admitting out loud that we are engineering ourselves into obsolescence, a lot of us are really enjoying it, and nobody is seriously discussing how afraid we should be for our families and future. I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it. Wo…

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Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by DrewADesign »

kens wrote: post #7

My knowledge-gap confession: even after many years with the languages, I can't write a main() in Python or Java without looking up the format.

No purpose in memorizing something that doesn’t meaningfully improve your understanding of the language, you only need it every now and then, and you can find it nearly instantly.

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by flir »

agumonkey wrote: post #84
_ea1k wrote: post #22

Every time that I read this about remote work, all I can think is how much I miss IRC and the culture that came from it. We were doing remote work effectively decades ago. Don't have hallway conversations to fix bugs? Easy, just post your problems on the team chat and someone (often one of several people) would love to drop by to help. I'm not sure exactly all of the forces that have led to this changing so much, but…

It's a strange pattern I observe often, whenever an idea gets promoted from organic-natural-human-ritual to official-new-visible-main-idea, it becomes bloated and off point.

Agile. Case in point.

Re: Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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Post by XorNot »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #88
kasey_junk wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve never worked _anywhere_ where reporting someone to HR was anything but negative impacting for your prospects at the company. And I’ve worked at lots of places in many dimensions (company size, industry, age, etc)

This usually applies to Big Bank.

I worked at a big bank and it definitely did not.
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