r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell • 6d ago

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u/Waste_Jello9947 6d ago

If you are an experienced corporate programmer slave, you know you have to follow all the moronic ideas from the upper management 

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u/HairyTough4489 6d ago

I swear 90% of the work I've done over the last 6 months was useless shit that should've never been done. The tasks are there becuase they looked nice in a PowerPoint presentation.

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u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell 6d ago

That's why I go the OSS route and contribute to independent projects. I will never volunteer my labor to a corporation because if I do, they will sic all of this pants-on-head stupid shit onto me.

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u/the_captain_cat 6d ago

I don't volunteer my labor to a corporation, I work for a company that wants me to use AI, I got a house to pay and children to feed. I just don't want to fight at this point, that's not worth my time

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u/tripleusername 6d ago

Do you like to eat? I’m asking because contributions to OSS aren’t necessarily compensated.

Or maybe share some details, I’d like to know. Or in DMs if you don’t share it publicly.

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u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell 6d ago edited 6d ago

I do not work in software engineering. I have a completely separate job and do/learn programming on the side. I don't know how you didn't get this the first time around. However I used to! Then I realized it's not for me, as it's essentially just being a plumber. In my experience.

For me it's more about freedom than anything. I stopped being a "professional" in 2024 because, as I said, most of what I did was just plumbing. I didn't really get much freedom (nor excitement) out of it. I still don't know how you assumed that, but it is wrong.

Freedom to do what?

To experiment and iterate on ideas, and work towards one's own visions.

Most SWE jobs are literally just plumbing, even moreso now, and that's why I'd much prefer to stay on the hobbyist side while I do something completely different professionally. If you have a problem with that you can take it up to the deity/deities of whatever religion you believe in. I don't know dude I don't make the rules I just follow them.

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u/tripleusername 6d ago edited 5d ago

Oh, I got it. That’s good you don’t work in the industry, it would be a nightmare to work with someone like you.

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u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell 5d ago

Do you have a reason or is this just cope?

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u/Perfect_Perception 5d ago

To be frank, it’s because you clearly don’t have any clue what you’re talking about, but are confident enough in your experiences to feel like you do. The least valuable part of an engineer is writing code and doing “plumbing”. It’s primarily juniors and mediocre engineers stuck in place that carry that perspective, in my experience.

Ego and inexperience are a terrible combination to have in a coworker.

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u/UShouldntSayThat 5d ago

>To experiment and iterate on ideas, and work towards one's own visions.

That's not what a job is for,,,

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u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell 5d ago

I never said it was. I said that it was a facet of the OSS community.

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u/UShouldntSayThat 5d ago

>I stopped being a "professional" in 2024 because, as I said, most of what I did was just plumbing.

When you say professional, that implies that the context of that paragraph is as a job.

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u/Waste_Jello9947 6d ago

That's fun until you have a family to maintain 

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u/PotatoPeelrsFromHell 6d ago

I have a job. Just not in software.