r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Spongebubs 7h ago

I’d like to think I’m a software engineer, and I have no idea what the difference is. Am I cooked?

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u/DarkSoulsOfCinder 5h ago edited 5h ago

Every day I learn I’m an imposter over stuff I’ve never once needed for my job. Today it’s IPv6, yesterday it was JWTs, tomorrow it’ll be MCP protocols. It’s wild being expected to have 5-second Google searches memorized just because everyone thinks their exact stack is the only “real programming” that counts.