I'm not a real engineer.

I get paid to build and maintain large software systems.

All I do is `printf`, recompile, tweak shit, repeat.

Usually with headphones in and a coffee.

I don't sit back and visualize the entire flow of control or stack trace in my head like the real engineers.

I don't `gdb` into the stack trace and understand what's going on the the memory addresses.

Literally just `printf` my life away.

I'm a fraud and ashamed.

>>92978904 (OP)

Anon there are "engineers" that only do project mgmt. Engineering isn't about the work you do, it's thinking you are better than eveyone else. All you need is a false sense of confidence.

the only sad thing here is your attitude. mopey and feeling sorry for yourself like a bitch, hopefully youre not this unfun to be around IRL because your charisma matters a hell of a lot more than being a fucking super autismo nerd that "dreams in code" hell.

just do your work and stay in a good mood, uplift people around you. make people have a good day. stop being so in your head wannabe sperg. you were destined for action and leading others while you effortlessly handle your workload.

>>92978904 (OP)

Imagine making 75-160k a year and doing nothing and then whining about it. Like bro, take the 20-55k that is stolen from you by income taxes and invest it into a side business and then do that at work while you do nothing. For example you could buy a barn and a few CNC routers and laser engravers and make custom wooden furniture for people, you could pour epoxy over your cnc 3d lofted 'carvings' and as long as you made $1 the government wouldn't be able to tax all the money your put into this side business. Shit if you are really lazy make your side business a video game streaming youtube channel or twitch and spend a bunch of money on your games and rig, buy a fucking full driving game rig and play nothing but american truck simulator. You have a do nothing job and 20-55k a year to blow on whatever you want that otherwise will be stolen from you and put toward the fucking ukraine war or trannying children or the war on drugs

>>92978904 (OP)

that's why you should take hrt and have programmer socks

>>92978904 (OP)

I got the skills to do so much more but I'm basically doing the same thing as you at my job, i use the free time this gives me to work on my own company so i can eventually stop being a wagecuck.

>>92978904 (OP)

> All I do is `printf`

How can I escape the debug-let ghetto?

>>92978904 (OP)

You were never and will never be a real engineer, faggot, and you are a retard for going in with that expectation. If you're an engineer than so is every timmy making mods in minecraft, codemonkey.

You don't. It's fine. It's perfectly acceptable as a debug method, I've been doing this for 21 years and I've been able to solve 95% of my issues with printf/console.log/whatever. The rest were a result of hypothesis/experiment/measure.



Don't let the neckbeard brigade get you down.

>>92978904 (OP)

you're gay op

breakpoints are unironically overrated. imagine waisting precious seconds of your life setting up a debugger. literally who gives a shit. if someone wants me to stick breakpoints into binaries i expect atleast a 20k pay rise.

>run tests? 

>Well, it runs, so it's tested.
