Me as a senior dev writing 5 lines of code everyday and spent the rest of the day reviewing thousands LoC commits from my juniors: "I didn't sign up for this. I should've learn carpentry instead."

[–] ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's more like it. Also, the more senior I became the more my LoC "productivity" became negative. Now, I get pleasure from deleting obsolete shit or replacing error prone spaghetti with a simple API call the author did not know about (more often than I like to admit that author is myself).

[–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 8 points 1 year ago

The worst part of being a senior dev is doing all the responsibilities as a team lead but not having the resources in place to not be required to be an individual contributor. I can’t imagine many people wake up each morning excited to be wearing both hats and doing a poor job at each.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Newbie tradesmen: laughs in the wrong kind of screw.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

“I didn’t sign up for this. I should’ve learn carpentry instead.”

I know a programmer who got fed up with corporate bullshit and did exactly that; they just got their diploma from a vocational school and now they're officially a carpenter.