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The Programmer Identity Crisis

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270 points imasl42 | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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greymalik ◴[21 Oct 25 17:55 UTC] No.45659146[source]▶
> One could only wonder why they became a programmer in the first place, given their seeming disinterest in coding.

To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

> careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments

That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value. It’s accidental complexity that I am happy to delegate.

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wolvesechoes ◴[21 Oct 25 19:54 UTC] No.45660862[source]▶
> but it doesn’t add value

Sad to see people reduce themselves willingly to cogs inside business machine.

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1. keeda ◴[21 Oct 25 20:32 UTC] No.45661311[source]▶
You can spend as much time as you want on "configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments" and otherwise honing your craft, the business machine will still look at you as cogs.

May seem depressing, but the bright side is that you as an individual are then free to find joy in your work wherever you can find it... whether its in delivering high-quality code, or just collecting a paycheck.

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2. wolvesechoes ◴[22 Oct 25 07:00 UTC] No.45665724[source]▶
> the business machine will still look at you as cogs

Of course, but I said that people see themselves this way.

To be clear, personally I do not find fiddling with configs particularly exciting, but some people do.