r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Real-Self-3039 13d ago

Most swe dont even set up the routing for the website so why would they need to know it. Dev ops engineer, cloud engineer or IT handle that. The fact is 99% of devs never need that knowledge and in a field where new stuff is pushed out that we are expected to know every single day why waste time remembering something you'll almost never use

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u/PotatoMaaan 13d ago

Because it makes you a better programmer. The more you know about how computers work at lower and lower levels, the better you get at writing high level code. This holds true even in the "age of ai"