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The general feeling of documentating things (lemmy.world)
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[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 76 points 10 months ago

You actually need proper documentation, though. I've had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I'm not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

[-] thoughtfuldragon 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sorry to tell you this but you are a real programmer.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

Fuck

[-] NovaOG@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Oh yes you are a programmer!

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I guess I shouldn't have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can't write it to save my life)

[-] NovaOG@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can "measure" you as a "real programmer" anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You've been thru it? You've learned a good amount? You're a programmer.

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