Computer Science on Yik Yak | Way too many people think software engineers spend most of their time writing code, and I feel like the discourse around AI often assumes that too. Writing new standalone pieces of code is a pretty small percentage of a typical SWE’s time.

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Computer Science 10w

Way too many people think software engineers spend most of their time writing code, and I feel like the discourse around AI often assumes that too. Writing new standalone pieces of code is a pretty small percentage of a typical SWE’s time.

Anonymous 10w

What do you do instead?

Anonymous 9w

This is genuinely so true, maybe at a startup u are writing a ton of code, but as an intern shadowing ppl at an enterprise size company, most swes on my team spend their time configuring, reconfiguring, researching, fixing bugs, etc

Anonymous 10w

i dont know what this fantasy is. If you are a junior dev your work is writing code lol. 80-90% of time is spent doing that

Anonymous 10w

Honestly curious how you’re spending your time?

Anonymous

#4 9w

We're not allowed to the app's code into chatgpt or other llms because the ai will save our code and generate it as other ppl's solutions when prompted, posing a security risk

Anonymous

#4 9w

put**

Anonymous

#2 9w

Figuring out designs, writing and discussing said designs, reading existing code, debugging, testing, understanding other components that the code needs to interface with

Anonymous

#3 9w

Maybe if you’re writing a small standalone thing so there’s no existing code to understand, you don’t plan out any design beforehand, you code almost works the first time, and you don’t bother with testing. But if all that’s true it’s unlikely to be good code.