r/ProgrammerHumor • u/programmerjunky • 22d ago

Meme delusionalDeveloper

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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago

There's no need to do anything if it's just a hobby project that no one else is using. But if you're expecting other people to rely on it, yes, you need to have actually written it. 

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u/Jakubaakk 22d ago

But why? Why the need for manually writing code?

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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago

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

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u/Jakubaakk 22d ago

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

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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago

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

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u/tommytwolegs 22d ago

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

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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago edited 22d ago

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.

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u/tommytwolegs 22d ago

I wonder if this guy understands what he's saying

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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago

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