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		kevindamm on April 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) Author listed a handful of the thinking aspects that take up the 11/12 non-motion work.. but left out naming things! The amount of time in conversation about naming, or even renaming the things I've already named.. there's even a name for it in the extreme, bikeshedding. Even sometimes I'll be fixated on how to phrase the comments for a function or even reformat things for line lengths to fit. Programming is mostly communicating.

ivanjermakov on April 21, 2024 [–]

Yep, with seniority programming gradually goes from problem solving to product communication and solution proposition

citizen_friend on April 22, 2024 | [–]

Seniority in helping large organizations navigate software development, not seniority in actually building software.

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