@theresnotime@fox.nexus really? ​:neofox_reach:​

@theresnotime tbh I needed to hear this after spending all day struggling with what should’ve been a fairly straightforward task ;-;

@theresnotime@fox.nexus it still stings when struggling with these things, because i'd get the feelings of not ever being able to do things :c
but thanks tho :3

@theresnotime thanks I needed that Q_Q. I am junior developer for almost a year and there is this creeping thought in the back of my mind that I am not learning fast enough and maybe I should be already more knowledgeable since it‘s almost been a year since I started in this language (which to be fair was entirely new to me before).

@theresnotime I definitely needed to hear this today after fighting with AWS accounts for a week.

@theresnotime we balance it out by being the smartest being in the universe when we figure out what the dumb thing we were doing was .

@theresnotime I am also stupid tbf

I am extremely comfortable with it tho

@theresnotime I would also implore anyone reading this to not succumb to the ppl who gatekeep. There are 100% people who dont do work and curry favor with higher ups so that all the work gets put on your shoulders.

Only speaking on this b/c this is what happened to me at my last job.

@theresnotime Honestly, reading that these days Javascript developers have to specialise made me feel better about not picking up everything tech related easily

@theresnotime at one point I had a serious existential breakdown at the literal absurdity of having to sit down in front of a screen to interact with the computer. Like, oh my god, how are you able to look at the damn screen when ~waves hands at the now~

@theresnotime Wish I had read this sooner when I had to train by myself on Microsoft Azure without the help of my company.

@theresnotime Also a reminder that even when you get good at one very specific area of computers, there's hundreds of different areas that you'll still struggle with - AND THAT'S OKAY!

Computers are not a single field of study - don't judge yourself for being OK at web dev but terrible at kernel memory management dev or k8s admin or distributed computing or whatever

@theresnotime Indeed, if it were easy, we would have been automated out of it completely years ago. Funny thing, even after all theses years, AI is still pretty stupid once you get outside of its obnoxiously small computational envelope.

@theresnotime also reminder that it's actually not your fault that the giant pile of garbage that is your companys legacy code is incomprehensible to you. You are rightfully annoyed at *why the hell did they build it like this, it's so hard to use*

@theresnotime tell that our C-level.
They dream of replacing us with untrained people using AI.

@theresnotime it's a practice that demands constant refactoring and checking small, seemingly pointless details to make sure nothing is breaking. It makes you question your sanity