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The Programmer Identity Crisis

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270 points imasl42 | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.305s | 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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1. CuriouslyC ◴[22 Oct 25 10:24 UTC] No.45667053[source]▶
> To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

100% this. I think a lot of the people who are angry at AI coding for them are "code calligraphers" who care more about the form of the thing they're making than the problem that it solves. I can't see how someone's who's primarily solution focused would shed a tear at AI coding for them.