I have been working at a large bank for a few years. Although some coding is needed, the bulk majority of time is spent on server config changes, releasing code to production, asking other people for approvals, auth roles, and of course tons of meetings with the end user to find out what they need.

I guess when I was a junior engineer, I would spend more time looking at code, though I used to work for small companies. So it is hard for me to judge if the extra time spent coding, was because of me being a junior or because it was a small company.

The kicker, is when we interview devs, most of the interview is just about coding. Very little of it is about the stuff I listed…

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Higher-level languages compile (pretty much) reproduceably into machine code, so the same C code would always produce the same executable as long as the same compiler version is used.

    Current AI chatbots will produce completely different results if given the same prompt twice. In its current form it can’t be used in a reliable toolchain for anything.

    • Feyter
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      01 year ago

      Big Part of my daily business is explaining people what they should code… People aren’t reliable as well.