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by crazygringo1 days ago |
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upvoteby amelius1 days ago|
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Also:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

-- Linus Torvalds

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upvoteby Swizec1 days ago|
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> "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

If you get the architecture wrong, everyone complains. If you get it right, nobody notices it's there.

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upvoteby esafak1 days ago|
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The SRE's Lament.
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upvoteby Terr_1 days ago|
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"Nothing needs fixing, so what do we pay you for?"

"Everything's broken! What do we even pay you for!?"

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upvoteby k32k1 days ago|
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Doesnt this apply with the hysteria of LLMs?

The question being - are LLMs 'good' at interpreting and making choices/decisions about data structures and relationships?

I do not write code for a living but I studied comp sci. My impression was always that the good software engineers did not worry about the code, not nearly as much as the data structures and so on.

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upvoteby skydhash1 days ago|
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The only use of code is to process data, aka information. And any knowledge worker that the success of processing information is mostly relying on how it's organized (try operating a library without an index).

Most of the time is spent about researching what data is available and learning what data should be returned after the processing. Then you spend a bit of brain power to connect the two. The code is always trivial. I don't remember ever discussing code in the workplace since I started my career. It was always about plans (hypotheses), information (data inquiry), and specifications (especially when collaborating).

If the code is worrying you, it would be better to buy a book on whatever technology you're using and refresh your knowledge. I keep bookmarks in my web browser and have a few books on my shelf that I occasionally page through.

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