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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Meme


People in every profession: We know what we do

Programmers:

["Awkward Look Monkey Puppet", two images of a red monkey puppet from “Ōkiku naru Ko”. On the left, the monkey faces right and sideglances with wide eyes and contracted pupils, while the right image shows the monkey staring straight ahead.]


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[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

You are an excellent human.

[-] anonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] clb92@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Related video, computer things cosmic rays messed up, including one voting case in Belgium - https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

[-] fische_stix@reddthat.com 23 points 1 year ago

The medical professions are feeling this meme with you.

[-] PortableHotpocket@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I understand 90% of the science behind what I do as a medical diagnostic technologist. It's still fucking magic as far as I'm concerned.

CTs and MRIs? Atom spin/relax releasing detectable energy waves that are somehow able to be read and aggregated by algorithms into a high detail image of the inside of a human body? Tell me that isn't magic and I'll call you a liar.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ironically, that's the part we understand better.

You break a bone, we put something to keep it in place and 3 weeks later it is unbroken? That is magic.

It may be similar for most professions. But the difference is that programming is much more accessible to everyone than medical stuff, or even car mechanics.

Lets take the example of someone finding solution X for [problem], but X is wrong, but not fatal:

  • Medical: possible malpractice lawsuit.
  • car mechanic: Lost $$$ buying wrong parts
  • Programming: Error hopefully caught by tests / QA. If the issue made it into production, roll it back to the prev version.

But it seems very likely other professions will also "google the problem"

  • Woodworker: how to do X joint, constructions for drawer, table,..
  • Car mechanic: likely cause of X, how to diagnose faults. Especially if they work on all cars
  • Repairman: same as car mechanic. Also diagrams, and pinout of chips.
  • Eletrical engineering: Parts, pinouts, troubleshooting issues with design
  • Cashier: What's the number for Bananas? (ok, they don't use the internet for that)
  • Waiters: Where was table 69?
  • Fast food worker: "Legal to get fired over eating a fry?"
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

You haven't spoken to anyone in academia I see

[-] Zardoz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gets even worse the more years of experience you have. You end up being the solo dev trying to figure out a stupidly over complicated 20 year old piece of software written by a sadist that loves WCF and using tcp sockets to send data between classes in the same project

[-] nonearther@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I know what I do.

I go to ChatGPT, type my problem and copy the solution to my codebase.

If it doesn't work, I search my issue over Stackoverflow or DDG, and copy from there.

And once the code fails in production, which is always, I repeat the process again to find the new solution which will then fail in next iteration.

So don't you ever tell me I don't know what I do. I may not know what code I'm writing or for what, but I very well know what I'm doing.

[-] YerbaYerba@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

This is called continuous improvement. Or so I tell my manager.

[-] jeltebr@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Copilot go brrrr

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Google help you

[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Acoustics checking in with the same feeling.

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