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by coffeemug 2065 days ago
> Unlike doctors and grade school teachers, if programmers had more contact with end users, they'd probably get burned out faster.

Depends on the business and users, but in many cases I agree with you. But I didn't mean to extend the doctor analogy to individual people. Personally, I'm very slightly aspy. I didn't get into computers to help people, I got into it because I loved programming, science, and tech. Unlike doctors, I don't need to see my work save people's lives. I'm in it for a totally different reason.

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Absolutely - in an ideal world, my software would have no users at all!
>Absolutely - in an ideal world, my software would have no users at all!

TIL that I live in an ideal world.