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No one knows what they’re talking about is a stretch. That’s not the case. Plenty of people know exactly what the fuck they’re talking about.
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vane112985y@grumpyoldaf those are people who are usually not invited to those meetings cause meetings are to talk about how cool everything is not how difficult.
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mundo0349795yWell, those meetings are to motivate people so they only talk about the good stuff and in a very high level.
They will talk about how great their shit is, but they will never talk about how long it took and how painful it was to shit it. You get me? -
vane112985ySteps to become architect / cto
1. Get yourself invited to a meeting
2. Agree and repeat with people in charge
3. Go to party with people from meeting
4. Blame your old programming colleagues for incompetence
5. Repeat until done
True story 😂
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someone asks me : What do people not tell you about being a software engineer?
So the thing is , No one actually knows what they’re talking about.
See, the thing about building software is that usually you are inventing something.
Not in a pretentious way. I don’t mean “inventing something” as in inventing the light bulb, but I mean making something new that someone else hasn’t built before (well, hopefully — if you’re building something someone else already built, then you might be doing it wrong).
Because of this, people are usually just coming up with solutions based on what they think will work.
And that’s about the best you can do. Sure, the more experience you have, the more you can recognize certain patterns, or lay certain architectural foundations, but you’re mostly just coming up with something new. Maybe not 100% new, maybe some sort of slightly different thing than another thing that exists, but it’s still new.
So yeah, no one knows what they’re talking about. You’ll sit in meetings, with people talking about all kinds of smart-sounding stuff. Most people are trying their best to understand and play catch-up. No one wants to be the dumb one. People try to make it a science as much as possible, but if you really wanna be honest, people are just trying stuff and seeing if it works.
It’s not a bad thing. That’s just the nature of software development.
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