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The general feeling of documentating things (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You actually need proper documentation, though. I've had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I'm not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh yes you are a programmer!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess I shouldn't have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can't write it to save my life)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can "measure" you as a "real programmer" anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You've been thru it? You've learned a good amount? You're a programmer.

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