I had enough common sense as an 18-year-old to know that writers and musicians need day jobs, but not enough to realize that I’d have been better off learning a unionized trade and becoming an electrician or a plumber. Since I didn’t have the looks or the personality to make it as a rent boy in Manhattan, I rent out my brain instead of my ass as a programmer.
There’s no inspiration or passion involved. I’m in it for the money. It’s thankless work best outsourced, and I laugh at articles saying that AI is going to take my job. An AI smart enough to take my job would be too smart to want it.
If I wasn’t autistic before I learned to code, I sure as hell became autistic in the process. Learning to think like a computer in order to program one is a dehumanizing process. Kind of explains why so many techies are fucked in the head.
The example of the guillotine ought to be all anybody needs to understand that social and political problems are not amenable to technological solutions.
I don’t know…I think I always had a passion for it. I always liked tech stuff and liked to play the computers. Built my first site at 13, after that another and another and so on…now I have 10 years of software engineering, worked with multiple technologies and frameworks along the way. Nowadays I work as a software architect at one of the largest companies in my country.
I stupidly thought that since everyone uses computers and they are getting more popular, I could pursue my passion as a career. Still waiting on an entry level job.
December 8th, 2009 - Motorola Droid successfully rooted … [granting] root access on the phone using a terminal emulator. This is how I learned bash which inevitably pushed me into pursuing proper Computer Science.
It clicked at a young age, I’ve been good at it and enjoyed it since I was like 13. Found out it was profitable a little later and yeah, that’s all it really took. Just the path of least resistance to be honest.
It was a natural progression for me, over the years I’ve gotten my fingers into a lot of pies across tech from running servers to REing to PCB design/Making and programming serves as a bit of glue to interconnect it all and then I fell in love with it.
But ONLY as a hobby, I know me and if I had to do it as a career day in and day out I’m not going to want to do it recreationally and the love and passion will eventually burn out. Although I do find areas to sprinkle it in in my career to make my job easier.
I was apparently enraptured by PCs as a child, didn’t really do much apart from games / emulators until secondary school. At ~14 I was offered an extracurricular class to learn how to program TI-82 calculators. This really clicked for me, ended up pursuing a heavy math / comp sci / stem curriculum. I get to automate away tedious / boring tasks by working on a mentally stimulating puzzle. The rush on getting it working the first time is 👌
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After typing in a bunch of programs on my 1KB Sinclair ZX-81 I wanted to understand how they worked and wanted to make some of my own.
Pretty much from the same era. Either you learned how to teach your computer to do stuff or you were stuck with an expensive paperweight.
I had enough common sense as an 18-year-old to know that writers and musicians need day jobs, but not enough to realize that I’d have been better off learning a unionized trade and becoming an electrician or a plumber. Since I didn’t have the looks or the personality to make it as a rent boy in Manhattan, I rent out my brain instead of my ass as a programmer.
There’s no inspiration or passion involved. I’m in it for the money. It’s thankless work best outsourced, and I laugh at articles saying that AI is going to take my job. An AI smart enough to take my job would be too smart to want it.
Ow - too accurate.
How was the process of learning it / getting good for you, as it can be really frustrating in the beginning?
If I wasn’t autistic before I learned to code, I sure as hell became autistic in the process. Learning to think like a computer in order to program one is a dehumanizing process. Kind of explains why so many techies are fucked in the head.
Fucked in the head and believe that we can solve every problem with tech.
The example of the guillotine ought to be all anybody needs to understand that social and political problems are not amenable to technological solutions.
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Nah, they would have rented 'em out: PEaaS: public executions as a service.
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I don’t know…I think I always had a passion for it. I always liked tech stuff and liked to play the computers. Built my first site at 13, after that another and another and so on…now I have 10 years of software engineering, worked with multiple technologies and frameworks along the way. Nowadays I work as a software architect at one of the largest companies in my country.
Definitely video games and wanting to make mods. Started off “making mods” in TorqueScript (I believe it was called?) when I was in middle school.
I stupidly thought that since everyone uses computers and they are getting more popular, I could pursue my passion as a career. Still waiting on an entry level job.
December 8th, 2009 - Motorola Droid successfully rooted … [granting] root access on the phone using a terminal emulator. This is how I learned bash which inevitably pushed me into pursuing proper Computer Science.
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I used to make bots in RuneScape. If I’m being honest post high school I had to pick something and just said fuck it CS degree
It clicked at a young age, I’ve been good at it and enjoyed it since I was like 13. Found out it was profitable a little later and yeah, that’s all it really took. Just the path of least resistance to be honest.
I had a knack for computers. I wanted a degree that would keep me from being poor. I don’t like programming but I do it for money.
I don’t suck as much at programming as I suck at everything else.
It was a natural progression for me, over the years I’ve gotten my fingers into a lot of pies across tech from running servers to REing to PCB design/Making and programming serves as a bit of glue to interconnect it all and then I fell in love with it.
But ONLY as a hobby, I know me and if I had to do it as a career day in and day out I’m not going to want to do it recreationally and the love and passion will eventually burn out. Although I do find areas to sprinkle it in in my career to make my job easier.
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I was apparently enraptured by PCs as a child, didn’t really do much apart from games / emulators until secondary school. At ~14 I was offered an extracurricular class to learn how to program TI-82 calculators. This really clicked for me, ended up pursuing a heavy math / comp sci / stem curriculum. I get to automate away tedious / boring tasks by working on a mentally stimulating puzzle. The rush on getting it working the first time is 👌
That’s so true, but what I think keeps us hooked in the game are the failures, the figuring out the "why"s.