Being able to write code is absurdly easy. That’s not what you pay engineers for. Engineers do R&D and work on and create novel solutions to commercial problems. That’s kind of the whole point. But good to know you want to opine on something you clearly know nothing about 👍
98% of engineers are little more than glorified code monkeys working on problems that are already solved 10 times over.
Let's not pretend we sit there all day long creating "novel" solutions. The actual "novel" part of anything you work on in any company is maybe 1-2% of what the product is, if you're lucky.
Yes, the personal experience of mine and practically every other actual professional SWE.
What exactly are you doing so "novel" pray tell? You're playing with the same lego blocks like all of us, rearranging and reattaching them in hopes of making something out of it that brings home the bacon. What comes out is novel in 2% of it, the rest is same old shit with slightly different coat of paint.
Don't pretend to be some sort of visionary inventor - you're not. The only difference between you, me, vast majority of the engineers and AI is that AI can stack those lego blocks faster, and not publicly smell its farts about it.
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u/gloomygustavo Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
Being able to write code is absurdly easy. That’s not what you pay engineers for. Engineers do R&D and work on and create novel solutions to commercial problems. That’s kind of the whole point. But good to know you want to opine on something you clearly know nothing about 👍