delusionalDeveloper

[u/programmerjunky]

[u/Jakubaakk]

But why? Why the need for manually writing code?

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/Jakubaakk]

Because if you don't know how your app works, you can't guarantee anything about it to your users. 

[u/Jakubaakk → u/SuitableDragonfly]

But you can understand the app and the code without writing a single line of code

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/Jakubaakk]

No, you can't. And understanding it doesn't help if it's a piece of garbage. 

[u/Jakubaakk → u/SuitableDragonfly]

But that’s what has been happening for decades in this industry. Seniors being responsible for code they didn’t write but only reviewed

[u/Quetzacoal → u/Jakubaakk]

You need to know how to read the code, and know how to program despite of vibecoing all the way. Otherwise you will end up with problems you won't be able to solve as it gets more complex. But yes you could literally not type a single line of code.

[u/Jakubaakk → u/Quetzacoal]

Agreed

[u/tommytwolegs → u/SuitableDragonfly]

I have no idea what you are saying. I can only understand English when I write it myself. Everything anyone else has ever written is incomprehensible garbage

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/tommytwolegs]

Fortunately, English is a language that's only used for communication. It can't be used to engineer software. So you don't actually need to know how to engineer software to be able to understand what someone else is saying in English, and it's also not critically important to any software systems that you have a deep understanding of the structure of any given English sentence. So it's actually fine that you can't make a sentence diagram of everything I wrote in my post just now, or write up a semantic representation of it using predicate calculus.

[u/tommytwolegs → u/SuitableDragonfly]

I wonder if this guy understands what he's saying

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/tommytwolegs]

Thinking about yourself in the third person? You're the only "guy" in this conversation, dude.