Every application kind of needs two modes: a default mode where the user is railroaded into making the right decision, and an "I'm not an idiot and will actually read the documentation before/after trying to make things work" mode. If you stick the toggle for the two modes somewhere that you'd only find by reading the documentation, people will automatically categorize themselves into the mode the ought to be in.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 76 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You actually need proper documentation, though. I've had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I'm not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh yes you are a programmer!

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I shouldn't have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can't write it to save my life)

[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can "measure" you as a "real programmer" anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You've been thru it? You've learned a good amount? You're a programmer.

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