I really dislike it when non-devs ask devs: "I don't understand. What could be so hard about coding?".

Grumble. FredFlintStoneGrumble.

I just keep silent.... I'd rather not waste my time & energy explaining

@Demolishun I'm dealing with code that 15 devs before me wrote horribly, lazily and spaghettily. Then my product owner thinks it's ok to put a 2-day time limit on it and call me fucked up when I'm not fast enough in solving it. What the fuck am I, a machine?

"you've activated my trap card!" proceed to bore them to sleep with the details

@jestdotty It's a good idea to rewrite but they put serious time constraints on me.

easy answer, without diving into optimization, algorithms, or any technicalities

"imagine you're learning a foreign language. single grammar mistake means the application will crash (best case scenario)"

people with basic self-reflection should realize they're not 100% gramaticaly correct all the time even in their native language

I rarely hear people imagine coding is easy

Most common thing I hear is people imagine that you build something once and then it's done an will last forever

"Isn't that website DONE?" 🤣 is a common question.

(But if we're honest, us devs might not be better, for example I've heard defvs say "I wonder what devs at Craigslist do - that site has not changed in years" but it is probably under constant development)

@jiraTicket the mentality "everything has to change all the time" is also horrible