Here too the Schrödinger’s equations apply: a programmer’s state during coding is a superposition of both of these states until actually trying to run the code, at which point it collapses into one of the two states.

GOD | DOG

• Start working in morning - Photo 2
• Take a break and come back - Photo 1
• flow state
• Come back next day - Photo 2
• The saga continues… (Wu tang, Wu tang)

i am a god who has no idea what they’re doing 🥺

Programmers have it so easy nowadays.

You should try programming in BASIC on the Atari.

There’s a third state: “Where’s the documentation on how to do <commonly done thing>, so I don’t have to steal it from a GPL code?”

The more time a coder spends in #2, the more I trust them.

Man I love that old Atari art.

I would say there are two types of devs.

The HACKER MAN knowing everything, always have the only solution and being boss in their realm

The DAUBTER thinking they know too less, always searching for the best solution for the problem and trying to get as many information to solve the problem as possible

Even having the imposter syndrome as a big problem for mental health. I genuinely have the opinion it makes the better devs.

I am a god because it works but I have no idea why it works

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Very binary, much wow.

With quantum computers you can become a god that doesn’t know what it’s doing. 😃

This tracks with my assessment of the two likely personalities of software engineers, either narcissistic or anxious with imposter syndrome.

I’m pretty firmly in the second category only. I have had the first a few times, but when whatever thing you were so stoked about inevitably fries or fails a few weeks in, you quickly learn to stop doing #1 altogether.