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Tell HN: Most Programmers Are Terrible

1 points by thepope ↗ HN
Most programmers are terrible. Especially the "elite" programmers.

How do I know this? Well like all of you other programmers I have been programming for n professional years + since I was a teenager if n isn't large enough.

You people keep creating new things instead of fixing old things so we have a shipwreck of broken tools scattered across decades.

I recently used winforms for a quick little project. What a stupid decision. Everything is broke. 90% of my time is spent working around bugs and unacceptable limitations.

But we know there are a lot more problems. My biggest pet peeve these days is the "elite" engineers who work at "FANG" corporations, lololololol who are supposedly better than me at programming yet churn out nothing but garbage.

I am eagerly awaiting the day when this mountain of bullshit you people have built collapses under you.

Back to building more awesome light weight world beating brilliant frameworks using temporaryTechnology1 + temporaryTechnology2.

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heldrida
There're a lot of talented people out there, who inspire the world!

It all starts with a dream...

Waiting for other people to fail won't make you any better.

If you've built or shared something that helped, inspired, motivated somebody, that's a good start! Try not to focus on negativity and projecting that to other people, that'll keep you in the darkness...

The success of those "temporary technologies" comes from very bright minds and solves problems some people have, you're not forced to use it.

Use whatever is best for you and support the tools and communities that you enjoy working with and it'll last!

smoyer
Hmm ... it's true that I generally hate code that I produced siz months ago but I consider that a sign that I'm improving. And "churning out nothing but garbage" ignores the fact that 80% of the cost of an application is in its maintenance. I actually enjoy maintenance engineering - removing vulnerabilities, simplifying functions and the like. There are definitely days when my LoC count is negative.