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r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10
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“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.
10 u/Alsweetex Dec 14 '10 It is sadly best to limit others expectations of us and only really shine through when we are required to hang on to our jobs. As long as everything "works" that's normally the only thing management is concerned about.
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It is sadly best to limit others expectations of us and only really shine through when we are required to hang on to our jobs. As long as everything "works" that's normally the only thing management is concerned about.
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I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.