• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That non-trivial software development is really freaking hard, and incredibly expensive . And the majority of developers barely have any idea what they’re actually doing.

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      1 year ago

      I remember my first job where I saw someone using actual math like trig and calculus to perform flight calculations and I freaked out not remembering any of that from school. I later found out that person was like part of the “A team” group of developers who would be handed task like that and fortunately I was assessed at a lower level

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      1 year ago

      And that a lot of the work is googling answers and using other people’s code (either directly copying, or through a library/package)

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      Haha it’s so true, as a junior dev, I started in a company making Mobil apps for people. And a senior dev said its basically a glorified excel database with a nice UI. Even though its simple read/write. It just takes a shit ton of time to develop everything the customer wants