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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It Possible to Succeed as a Programmer?

As a programmer, you have to kind o stop writing code to be effective. A lot of the problems you encounter aren't isrally solved to really narley code. They're solved by conceptual solutions which can then be turned into code. The hard part of programming whent you get a certain skill ov in programming, you can prtty much solve any reasonable problem that's put in frontYou. But what you can't solve is a total jerk with code who will cripple you more than anything else. These are the problems that have to attack your team and absolutely hate everything about them.

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