• Slayer 🦊@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    As a software engineer I just tell people I’m not the IT guy. I make the things the IT guy uses

    Even though I could fix their problem. I just don’t want to

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      Over the years it gets tiring, it doesn’t help that there’s a huge technological illiteracy issue even though we depend on it and use it every waking moment.

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        Yes! I always call it tech debt. It fits because, I’m constantly bailing out bankrupt users that are too big to fail. Solve Literacy , solve debt , then I can go back to making things

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      As someone in the IT administrating department, i feel like the new wave of software engineers have a frighteningly low understanding of the system they’re developing on. It appears as they are making plain code monkeys these days

      How is your impression on this?

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        Not the OP but been in IT for a while. The current generation entering the workforce have been using tech since birth but do not seem to understand or care how it actually works. They are generally poor troubleshooters and seem hesitant to ask for help. I figure pandemic lockdowns and remote learning made this worse.

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          Please don’t generalise us like this. I’m currently in second semester and working for my company, working on a codebase. I very much care for how my stuff works, and I also know a fair bit I think. I troubleshoot as a hobby and am passionate.

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        Working as a software engineer developing for the IT team, I understand the system I’m developing on, but not the system I’m developing.

        Jira customfields give me nightmares.