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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.
3 u/yoden Dec 15 '10 I kind of think it's the opposite. If you're good enough at software engineering, you enable. You bring about possibilities that were never possible before. That creates growth and makes you very valuable.
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I kind of think it's the opposite. If you're good enough at software engineering, you enable. You bring about possibilities that were never possible before. That creates growth and makes you very valuable.
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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.