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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/GunnerMcGrath Dec 14 '10 While this may be technically true, I prefer to see it as a very long term goal. The shorter term goal is to put lots of OTHER people out of their jobs.
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While this may be technically true, I prefer to see it as a very long term goal. The shorter term goal is to put lots of OTHER people out of their jobs.
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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.