What is a coder? Someone who is handed the full specs and sits down and just types code? I have never met such a person. The most annoying part of SWE is everyone who isn't an SWE has inane ideas about what we do.

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pjmlp 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Never worked on offshoring projects? That is exactly what the sweatshop coders do.

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Tade0 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No we don't.

For one, I never saw a "full spec" (if such a thing even exists) back in my days of making 8k. Annually.

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recursivedoubts 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think that the current AI tooling is a much bigger threat to offshore sweatshops than to domestic programmers.

Why deal with language barriers, time shifts, etc. when a small team of good developers can be so much more productive, allegedly?

	▲	pjmlp 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It certainly is, https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/hcl_infosys_tcs_wipro...

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theshackleford 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The most annoying part of SWE is everyone who isn't an SWE has inane ideas about what we do.

I’ve tended to hold the same opinion of what the average SWE thinks everyone else does.