programming as theory building
programming as theory building
Posted Feb 6, 2025 19:22 UTC (Thu) by hecanjog (subscriber, #114889)Parent article: The selfish contributor revisited
> If asked, he said, engineers will claim that anything they're doing—including staring out the window while thinking—is productive work.
This really reads like a misunderstanding of what programming is to me -- a human process. Characterizing "productive work" this way makes sense for a large corporation I suppose. It doesn't make any sense to me unless you ignore the human component, though.