bridgeenjoyerOct 16, 2025

What do all you coders actually do?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/48048469

What do all you coders actually do? - sh.itjust.works

I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages. Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting. So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like “the drop down field isn’t loading properly on this form”? I just dont get what “a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python” actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!

Show threadFushuan [he/him]

I’m a data engineer, which means I write code that manages data aka databases. RN I’m mostly working with python, pyspark, managing data transformations from different providers. I’m also managing the deployment and execution of such pipelines via terraform.

I don’t copy much code, if at all. I do search plenty examples online but then I write my own. I’m at the point where I could adapt myself into almost any language in a week though, they are very similar.

If you want to go into coding focus on understanding the functionality of the code, what it is actually doing and why is it done like it is, that should give you a lot of flexibility when changing frameworks or languages. A lot of stuff is super similar across the board.

Oct 16, 2025 at 11:22pmWeb