I do Data, Design, and Marketing (and sympathize with Bartholomew Cubbins). I use code to solve problems. I'm a multidisciplinary artist who holds a phd in fine arts. I like tea.
My honest attraction to programming was monotonous, repetitive tasks that I knew a computer could do if only I could figure out how to tell the computer to do them. Sometimes the tasks were mine, other times they were efficiency improvements for others, and sometimes it was even to just prevent unexpected human error from something that a machine could do (freeing the human to do better things).
I'm not lazy, but I identify with the lore of the lazy programmer being productive in order to be lazy.
That said, humans are needed -- I just like to free them up for the human stuff.
My honest attraction to programming was monotonous, repetitive tasks that I knew a computer could do if only I could figure out how to tell the computer to do them. Sometimes the tasks were mine, other times they were efficiency improvements for others, and sometimes it was even to just prevent unexpected human error from something that a machine could do (freeing the human to do better things).
I'm not lazy, but I identify with the lore of the lazy programmer being productive in order to be lazy.
That said, humans are needed -- I just like to free them up for the human stuff.
As programmers, we don't call it "being lazy"; we call it "being economically efficient." 😂