I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages.

Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like “the drop down field isn’t loading properly on this form”?

I just dont get what “a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python” actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
    5·
    19 hours ago

    There’s a big difference between hobby coding and corporate coding. I do the latter and work on large applications as part of a team. I spend a lot of my time

    • Using debugging tools and probing at code to investigate and fix bugs
    • Coming up with system architectures to achieve whatever feature we want to add
    • Cleaning up my other teammates’ AI generated slop 😑 (fuck AI)
    • Writing test suites for our code that guarantee everything works as expected
    • Occasionally I write new features
    • Juggling this with pointless meetings and a long ass commute that take up 60%+ of my work day
    • ctrlaltdelight@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I got laid off before the AI got really and truly going at the company I was at. We had a mandate to have 90% of the code submitted to be covered by unit tests. How does the whole “vibe coding” crowd handle that aspect? Do they just ask the AI to create unit tests for the code it generates as well? I always heard a lot of complaints about unit testing but I quite enjoyed that part at times.