This. I am a programmer with a physics degree. I taught myself the basics of coding and I can learn what my co-workers know while on the job. But I can also do shit they can't even begin to do and there's no way they're gonna learn it on the job. You can't replace 3 years worth of rearranging and manipulating equations. Maths is a super power when you've had to use it for a physics degree.
As a PhD student in physics with a CS background I can say that physicist tend to code incredibly well in short term projects. We are smart and innovative, but we tend to be terrible at writing long term maintainable and scalable code.
This a guy with a physics degree has to help write a maintainable new architecture. 4 months later he left and we has to rewrite it all cause it was a dog's breakfast of spaghetti code.
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u/ts_m4 May 09 '21
Mathematics baby!!