I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
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I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
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Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#2> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience.
And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does, to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in the magic word wasting hours of my time, a failure that is not my fault but a failure for which I bear the negative consequences of, is infuriating enough that I am always compelled to have more understanding and eventually more control of everything I write.
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#3I love this! Just sculpting the wrinkles right out of my brains!
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#4> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
People get really defensive when I point out that they are proud of the things that they don’t know. Willful ignorance and anti-intellectualism is a cancer in anything it infiltrates and SWE is no different.
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#5> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others?
If you're trying to accomplish X, how much does all this matter directly related to X? There's always infinite number of things to learn about and depth in every dimension. We explore depth where we are each personally curious or where its necessary.
I liked the post. It was short and concise and presents a unique way to view this new coding paradigm.
"If I have seen further than others, it is only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants," Isaac Newton
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#6> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others? If you're tryi…
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#7Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#8> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others? If you're tryi…
There is difference in taking pride of not knowing things and considering it as regrettable necessity.
Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#9> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others? If you're tryi…
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Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
#10I wrote something very similar back in October! The "sculpting" metaphor really stuck for me.