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!
You sound like I would be if I had been able to go that route ha. Aren’t most of those data jobs going to be replaced soon though? Seems like low hanging fruit for management to throw some crappy ai at it.
I feel like I have enough experience and institutional knowledge that I won’t be replaced in the near future. But we’re not hiring, and the higher-ups are trying to shoehorn AI into everything to compensate.
This AI trend trying to replace coders with LLMS is very stupid. A coder is already writing in human friendly terms what they want from the machine, if you communicate it with less clarity there are edge cases you’re not covering, so either the LLM is allowed to add edge cases scenarios on its own (so it can decide to filter all entries that contain the letter A just because) or it isn’t and won’t cover any of them (so it can for example crash and burn when retrieving something empty from the db and happily allow it to be put there). What I think most AI pushers don’t understand is that we’re already writing as close to English as possible while still being very structured about what we’re saying.