Do you ever regret spending 20 years of your life on programming and just scream into a pillow at night?
it's just a hobby for me so I'm not affected by any drama or bullshit surrounding "coding" these days.
My pillow screams into my ear at night. does that count?
It was fun.
>>108694502I'm glad I didn't spend 20 years of my life on programming though
>>108694502you wont regret it if you make sure to limit yourself. Yes spending 12 hours a day programming (or any other type of work) is a waste of life. Limit yourself to 8 hours of work a day at most and not in the weekends.
>>108694596The worst part is actually the soulless "work". Every time I deal with someone else's stupid code and problems I hate it. Every time I write my own code I can at least feel some joy.
>>108694609you should strive toward figuring out how to get to work alone. Maybe ask your boss for a different role or change job. Dont live in comfortable misery anon.
>>108694648buddy, this is 2026, you don't ask for a better task, you obey the faggots who are in charge and just try to do whatever they throw at you and hope you can read their minds about how to do things their way.I cannot tell you how fucked this is, these people in charge, they can't even describe taks properly, I work two jobs and the tasks I get at both is a few sentences in a Jira ticket and then everything is supposed to be on a call. Fucking retards are delusional and lazy, can't ever write a coherent task.
>support writes out a ticket>URGENT PRIORITY>it's a literal nothing burger that could've been done hours laterno i hate this field. also the deadlines are rarely realistic due to incompetence at every layer of management, although that's mostly anecdotal.
Never went down the wagie path. I think wagies are weak people who do what others tell them to and then are shocked to find they live in a hellish life.
I've never met anyone in the field that actually liked their job. It's just that the pay is so high that it makes no sense to change careers.WFH during covid made it worse because you had the time to contemplate just how shit your life truly is.Vibecoding made things more tolerable for a while but now everyone is expected to orchestrate agent swarms and your boss expects higher productivity so things are even worse now.But again I have kids and a mortgage. I'll just work until I one day snap and blow my brains out.
>>108694502No, I regret not spending 20 years of my life on programming.
>>108694502some people spend 20 years of their lives watching anime or tv or movies or playing video games so no, I don't regert spending 20 years doing something I enjoyed that is also productive and creative as well as brain exercising.
>>108694502To be honest, programming sucks. It's not because it's complicated, but because you have to deal with ancient tools, archaic protocols, imperfect or incomplete APIs. So even if you craft a perfect program, your program can't run in a void. Even if your program can run on bare metal, you still have to contend with clunky ISAs and Intel's backward compatibility. No system can be perfect, but I hate how the IT industry ignores problems and adds layers on top of them instead of fixing the real issues.
>>108694502Everyday the true benefits of genAI become clearer.It shows how spiteful are the losers who wasted their lives are, and how a huge chunk of "humans" are non-sentient and will get entertained by the dogshit generated animations and "art".It also generates a lot more "software" with its own piles of technical debt and reduces the amount of people comig to the field because of things like in the OP, which will lead to even better prospects for this field.A miracle for frontier labs that helps them suddenly and magically start to generate profits will not come, the subsidies will disappear, and the SOTA models soon after,and only the programmer will remain.
>>108694502I like programming doe.Been doing it professionally and as a hobby for 12 years now.Doing pair programming with an AI agent is pretty fun too, really novel.
>>108695296You’re right but I solved that last bit by developing for Apple Silicon and it’s been great. The annoying part isn’t the hardware but Apple’s policies.
>>108694502I think the alternative would've been worse.
The alternative was that I killed myself.At least dedicating my life to this craft and skill have allowed me to contribute something at a global scale that might even outlast my life.Was it worth it? I don't know. Sometimes I think it was a life well /wasted/. Something I think it was a life /well/ wasted.At the very least I can do my part in trying to strike back at the injustices of life and the human condition.To try and progress us all towards civil liberty through complex mathematics.To raise the floor of the next generation so that their life isn't as horrible or harsh as mine was.To give the next me a chance for a better existence than this one.Imagine if we all had such a mentality and combined our efforts to improve the world for ourselves and everyone else.If we put effort into attacking real common and solvable problems, instead of attacking and exploiting each other.But I digress, time to hit the blunt and then the editor.
>>108694502Programming is the best thing in this world. Everything is full of lies, relativism, sophism, malice. But the compiler is honest and predictable. Programming is how life should work in a decent and advanced society.
>>108694502no. it's the only thing that gives my life any meaning
>>108697097 (me)it is a massive waste of time thoughbeit
I'm encouraged by your answers anons, it's good to hear you don't consider it a waste of time and love it. Maybe not all of the time, but sometimes.
>>108694502i just use AI to code, i started like a year ago and already got a job doing it
>>108694502finally you losers realize how shit your whole industry ist. healthcare worker
>>108694502I was a spreadsheet fag who learned programming and automated all of my tasks/reports, so I basically had to do almost no work for a few years. So I don't regret programming in the slightest.Now I program for a hobby and have a higher paying business job (where I can still automate a bunch of workflows). Programming is still fun and incredibly useful. My life would suck ass without the knowledge.
