I hate programming, why did I choose this field.

https://lemmy.ml/post/16742521

I hate programming, why did I choose this field. - Lemmy

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste. Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue? SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD ‘date’ TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, “Ain’t no way.” as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix? SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id Moral of the story, don’t become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

You didn’t add the date field to your query and couldn’t work out why it didn’t return the missing field for over 2 hours?

Perhaps SQL isn’t for you as things get waaaaay more finicky than that.

You’ve never made a silly mistake where you “can’t see the forest for the trees”?

It happens to the best of us

Yes of course, but it’s not the sort of thing I’d make a rant post criticising the entirety of programming about.

It’s like going to a mathematics forum and declaring “Guyz I forgot to carry a 1, screw Maths.”

I think this may be a symptom of overreliance on AI for learning to code. AI won’t help as it doesn’t know the schema and if you can’t figure it out yourself I really think it’s time to go back to basics to fill the gaps in your knowledge without the crutch of ChatGPT.

Because developers are all logical and don’t EVER show anger at the systems they’re working on…. Hahahaha…

I mean I personally wouldn’t post about it, but I’d probably rant over lunch at my stupidity…

There’s a difference between ranting to your coworkers at lunch about a stupid mistake and typing out a full rage essay.

Imagine the state of the sub if we all did that… Wait…

This “full on rage essay” is nine sentences, including the tl;dr and the sentence fragments. There’s really not a big difference between telling your coworkers a story like this and posting about it on social media.
Did you read it before the edits?!
I read it a few hours ago. Was it substantially longer before?
No, He’s just trying to excuse his own emotional reaction.

No not substantially, title was different and some words toned down.

I withdraw the word “essay” and replace it with “post”.

Not substantially, it had a different title and was toned down.

I withdraw the word essay and apologise for any rudeness.

Have a good one.