There are only two states

Very binary, much wow.

With quantum computers you can become a god that doesn't know what it's doing. 😃

You don’t need quantum computers for that.

This tracks with my assessment of the two likely personalities of software engineers, either narcissistic or anxious with imposter syndrome.

Both at once all the time ?
- Not at the same time, but in alternation, sure. It's all reactions to underlying shame and inadequacy beliefs/feelings which are there all the time I expect.

I'm pretty firmly in the second category only. I have had the first a few times, but when whatever thing you were so stoked about inevitably fries or fails a few weeks in, you quickly learn to stop doing #1 altogether.

s/"a god"/"finished for the day"
- It do be like that

Here too the Schrödinger's equations apply: a programmer's state during coding is a superposition of both of these states until actually trying to run the code, at which point it collapses into one of the two states.

That’s not true, there is a third state:

“I don’t care anymore, I’ll drive Uber if it comes to that”.

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4th state: I don't care, I just use AI to write my code.
- The trick there is that you'll be developing forever unless you get your hands dirty, because it like 80% works, and you need 99% to put it in any kind of prod.

GOD | DOG

Start working in morning - Photo 2
Take a break and come back - Photo 1
flow state
Come back next day - Photo 2
The saga continues... (Wu tang, Wu tang)

Tell that to Microsoft!

bool?

i am a god who has no idea what they're doing 🥺

Programmers have it so easy nowadays.

You should try programming in BASIC on the Atari.

GOTO 42069
Isn't that first artwork from the Atari BASIC book cover? I suffered enough with BASIC on my TI-99 and IBM XT, I can't imagine how rough the Atari version was.
- Basic on commodore or turbo pascal on the icon, my first programming languages. Just started learning C++, shoulda started this 30 years ago

Man I love that old Atari art.

The more time a coder spends in #2, the more I trust them.

I would say there are two types of devs.

The HACKER MAN knowing everything, always have the only solution and being boss in their realm

The DAUBTER thinking they know too less, always searching for the best solution for the problem and trying to get as many information to solve the problem as possible

Even having the imposter syndrome as a big problem for mental health. I genuinely have the opinion it makes the better devs.

There's a third state: "Where's the documentation on how to do <commonly done thing>, so I don't have to steal it from a GPL code?"

Immo stultorum deus sum.

I am a god because it works but I have no idea why it works

the dog knowing how to sit at a computer chair and not destroy anything in front of it puts it so far ahead of the curve for dogs that it might as well be dog god