[kiawe_fire]

I’ve noticed this as well - they don’t view software building as a form of engineering that can be learned from basic principles of computer science, but instead as magic.

So the go to for every solution is to find a third party library from a “real” witch or wizard, and follow its basic tutorial. Maybe try to customize it a bit at most.

If something breaks, just start randomly moving things around or copying and pasting more code from forums until it works.

I can’t live like that. I need to know why something’s not working, AND why it IS working. I like stepping through my code with a debugger just to make sure things look right, even when they’re working.

I think the craziest part, though, is just how much people with this “software is magic” mindset can actually get just by brute force cobbling things together.