Comment by radial_symmetry
6 hours ago
I can now freely admin that I never enjoyed programming. It was just a means to an end for creating.
6 hours ago
I can now freely admin that I never enjoyed programming. It was just a means to an end for creating.
Then you're just a stranger in a land of nerds, only knowing about the history of computing you would know that coding isn't only a means to create something but it is everything. Would the Michelangelo statue have been 3D printed hold the same value? The problem is that programming got popular because it paid good salaries
I'm a little in the middle, I was always really good at programming, it just clicked for me. As a physicist, I could see that I was OK at the math and physics but excelled at the programming piece. At the same time, I never really cared much about the art of programming itself. It still was a means to an end. I know that does make it so I can't totally empathize with engineers who just love the art of programming and the existential fear they might be feeling with the looming AI takeover.
It's definitely amazing being able to just make things with so little effort. I'm finishing so many unfinished side projects.
But I would prefer to have a job.