Can we PLEASE make a rule against “Am I too old?” and “Is programming worth learning?” posts on this sub?

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AmizTennyson@reddit

I just saw someone recently posted another post about the topics you mentioned not to post; they won't stop. There's already so many posts on this, but people have to post another 🫠

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Ordinary-Cycle7809@reddit

Not Just Reddit dude this bs has reached x as well and im tired of this idk how its not flagged as engagement farming

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JohnBrownsErection@reddit

The college majors sub straight up banned doomerposting about compsci degrees because it got so bad. We ought to do that here.

If you're too lazy to search up the most basic of things, especially when they're in conveniently located places like the side bar of this sub, I hope you get fleas. It's really goddamn annoying and you've already failed at the most central skill of tech - information gathering.

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AshuraBaron@reddit

I just started elementary school. Is it still worth learning to program? /s

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johnpeters42@reddit

For you, no. :)

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BizAlly@reddit

Beginners aren’t asking for information, they’re asking for reassurance. You’ve seen it 100 times, they haven’t.

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SirCarboy@reddit

Yeah I bite my tongue but I always want to sarcastically reply and tell them they're too old or to give up.

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franker@reddit

for what it's worth I actually did give a serious reply of being too old once and got a few interesting responses - https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1shth5y/learning_programming_when_youre_old_af/ofg73ca/

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SirCarboy@reddit

It's so true though. I know someone who wanted to pick up the violin when they retired, not having ever played any musical instrument. A significant number of our family play music and we all knew it was gonna be a challenge but this guy got all offended. Suffice to say I haven't heard him playing that violin these last few years.

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franker@reddit

There's always going to be outliers like a 70-year-old who goes to law school. But mostly, there's a reason why the huge majority of people just want to retire and play golf when they get older. Cause you just can't grind like you did in your twenties any more. I don't know why that's so difficult for anyone to say in this forum.

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cainhurstcat@reddit

Exactly! Whenever I see these posts I think: no, you're cooked. Go, be a goose farmer somewhere.

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noogy89@reddit

I've often thought about giving up and being an emu farmer. Those eggs can fetch a pretty price

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JohnBrownsErection@reddit

I was saying basket weaving but goose farmer is funny as fuck lol

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cainhurstcat@reddit

A while ago I saw a screenshot of someone's LinkedIn profile. They had quite a lot of good dev job's previously, but their current job is goose farmer. Someone captioned it as peak dev career or something.

And honestly, maybe AI really will take all our dev jobs. If it happens, I gonna get a couple gooses and do the same

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csabinho@reddit

I'd upvote this, but it's actually the answer to life, the universe and everything!

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shittychinesehacker@reddit

There’s no rule saying you can’t tell people they’re cooked

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AceLamina@reddit

I forget I'm on reddit sometimes

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SourceScope@reddit

Give up old man.

Ai already took your job

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dude123nice@reddit

Do it

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cloud2ground@reddit

Sometimes I bite my tongue too hard and I let them know 23 is definitely too old to do anything.

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Mitchads@reddit

wasn't this posted a few months ago?

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spinwizard69@reddit

Well this is r/learnprogramming it would be a lot worse in a language specific Reddit. Lets face it the time has passed when any imbecile could get a job programming. This makes the less confident and less capable, very nervous. I look at AI differently, there will be more people programming than ever before. They might not be employed as “programmers” but that is a different discussion.

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Relative_Molasses_15@reddit

Bro just walk on by and scroll past it.

You just have to flick your finger. They made it super easy for you.

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ironykarl@reddit

I'm sympathetic to your complaint, but as a counterpoint: this is a sub for inexperienced people to learn. Inherently, that is going to mean a lot of duplicate topics

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Soggy-Holiday-7400@reddit

the energy people put into writing a detailed post about whether to start, waiting for replies, reading every comment and then writing thank you responses ,that's like 45 minutes they could've just spent opening a tutorial.

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megacewl@reddit

I mean, isn’t part of the problem that everyone’s case/situation is so different/unique? That’s probably why people don’t just go with what they find off Google. Many times people need a tailored answer based on all the context the got going on.

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Vajrick_Buddha@reddit

Procrastination and fear of starting basically

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Empty_Error2587@reddit

Everytime I see this I'll say that I started with 10 yo and that they have no chance and that there is no useful programming language anymore, that AI is going to kill us all

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JonasErSoed@reddit

10 years old? Wow, good for you, grandpa!

I started out when I was 9. That was 24 years ago, so more or less two years before AI officially made all devs redundant

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Empty_Error2587@reddit

I was sarcastic! and I hope you are being too! I actually started at 27

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Appropriate-Sign-745@reddit

Couldn't agree more. Start with the basics, experiment, break things, and Google the errors. Real learning happens when you're stuck and forced to figure it out.

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shrodikan@reddit

I agree. I've stopped responding because the answer is literally unknowable. We are entering an unknown era and a bunch of programmers can't see the future any more than OP.

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rizzo891@reddit

So your solution to annoying posts is to post an annoying post whining about them?

Interesting solution cotton let’s see how it works out for em.

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SaltAssault@reddit

It's always funny when people whine about whining.

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pidgezero_one@reddit

if you don't understand how those things are different, which one of the categories OP mentioned do you fall into?

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rizzo891@reddit

Op didn’t mention any categories?

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Kwith@reddit

I'm 42 and started getting into programming only a couple years ago. No you aren't too old, you just have to be willing to put the time in.

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Chaseshaw@reddit

I died in 2017, am I too old to learn programming?

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JohnBrownsErection@reddit

Gentleman I am pleased to say I just reported a post about being too old and our glorious mods removed it.

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PhilosophicalGoof@reddit

Just make a FAQ post that answers the most commonly asked questions.

You can even update the information every 6 months so that it reflects the current state of things.

After that just have an automod delete any post that already has the question answered and link the poster to the FAQ.

These questions shouldn’t even be here, it should be in cscareerquestion.

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walledisney@reddit

Am I too old

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shittychinesehacker@reddit

We should stop lying to them and just tell them they’re cooked

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SecondTalon@reddit

But I'm 34,000 years old and need to know if it's too late to learn QBASIC

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dumpin-on-time@reddit

while we're at it, let's ban the posts complaining about posts

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HashDefTrueFalse@reddit

Please! For the time being all useful discussion has been had again and again. Search exists. Surely someone can quickly curate a short list of previous comment section links with some good answers, put them in an auto-reply and then lock comments, or something...

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elroloando@reddit

This kind of posts five a life to this boring subreddit.

Welcome to all of those who come asking same questions.

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fredoverflow@reddit

https://redd.it/1ekhbyk

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MutaitoSensei@reddit

Why is JavaScript so hard tho

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ayn_rand_1@reddit

This won't change because unfortunately it's reddit.

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JonasErSoed@reddit

Most of the subreddits I follow, not just the programming ones, get these "Can we ban these X posts?" posts every now and then

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DiscipleOfYeshua@reddit

Rather than “ban”, just auto-bot answer them “yes”…?

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IndividualSalt9824@reddit

Yeah I really see alot of people asking these questions like what do you mean "am i too old?" if you want to learn..learn it

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SyrupOutrageous1801@reddit

Let's encourage "How can I start learning at X age?" instead. Age doesn't matter, lack of action does.

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Level_Pie_4292@reddit

It's frustrating to see these posts because they clog up the subreddit. If OP took a minute to search, they'd find countless threads already addressing their concerns.

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cainhurstcat@reddit

I am so sick of this...

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Abhishek_Thulasi@reddit

I think it's a valid question, and we should ask what makes them curious in the first place. Every other day, something new emerges that threatens to disrupt the market. For instance, my cousin was interested in coding but drifted away after hearing AI companies claim that "coding is dead." Instead of banning these posts, maybe we should address the underlying fears. What do you guys think?

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Iftykhar1001@reddit

Honestly there is now bigger competing parties but the job has turned into more bigger scale thinking rather than being just a coder. You got to architect a whole system now.

But who knows things might progress faster in that role too. And multitasking people are getting hired more often.

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Whatever801@reddit

Been this way for years

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aqua_regis@reddit

You obviously haven't yet found the extensive FAQ here that contain exactly what you claim is needed.

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aqua_regis@reddit

Report as Rule #4 and move on. If you're feeling generous, direct the OP to the FAQ that has all these questions covered.

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One-Program6244@reddit

I've been in the game for decades. You absolutely cannot expect to be spoon fed. If you don't have the initiative to go out and at least try to figure out something for yourself you're not going to get very far.

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PoMoAnachro@reddit

We should set up a bot to respond to all of these threads with exactly this comment here (and then close the thread).

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raedamof911@reddit

We shouldn't worry about what people say. Learning is something good so just do it but plan ahead maybe someone will invent something good

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brouettelover@reddit

Don't make reddit a stackoverflow pls

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BKhalissi@reddit

Please don't make reddit Instagram Ask stories

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brouettelover@reddit

Please do a barrel roll

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patrixxxx@reddit

Only if we also make a rule that forbids bickering about what people are posting instead of just ignoring it.

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AliZawya@reddit

We need to be patient with beginners. We were beginners too, and asked the same questions that some experts might find stupid. They ask those questions to boost motivation. It's hard to learn any skill if the motivation is low.

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sept27@reddit (OP)

It’s one thing to ask a beginner question, but it’s another to ask a question that connotes an inability to even attempt to learn. People don’t need a personalized answer to these questions, and they’ve been asked so many times that I’d hasten to say that any person in any circumstance could likely find an answer with a 2 second search.

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AliZawya@reddit

Am I too old to code?

No, you can learn to program, and possibly have a career doing so, at any age.

Those questions are already answered on the FAQ page. I'm trying to understand why they still ask the same questions. Maybe the page is so long, and they need a quick answer.

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_malaikatmaut_@reddit

IMO, for this sub it might be appropriate.

I normally lurk ard r/ExperiencedDevs for posts that are not at this level.

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maskedbrush@reddit

I agree. Not only they can't google it, but they can't even read one of the other millions posts with the same question.