Programmer Humor

Don't look up has a pretty accurate depiction of what the billionaires will be able to achieve when the end of the world comes.

And the series Mr. Robot did very well by showing realistic software and hardware all along.

The opening scene to Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation gives me work anxiety, with the Jeremy Renner as the manager who is shouting at the two people doing the work to work faster (repeatedly) and giving them directions but has no understanding of what they are doing. Then Cruise sweeps in with a new directive and it takes a few tries to get right, under an absurd deadline.

The app is 4 years behind schedule, and the endgame asteroid is still approaching.

I once read about Andy Warhol's film Empire and thought it could form a decent stylistic background for a movie about your average programmer's work day.

One continuous 8 hour shot of a programmer sitting by a computer, slowly scrolling through a code, pausing for a long time to stare at particular sections, and occasionally saying "why the fuck doesn't this work?"

silicon valley tv series

Not software, one my the reasons I dropped The Flash tv series was the speed at which the "techie" created new tech that would win anyone several noble prizes.

The person in charge trying to coordinate the whole thing, who's asking for status updates on a daily basis and jumps down your throat if you don't respond in a timely fashion, takes weeks to respond when asked for critical input. Also....

Leader: The world is going to end in 5 days, we need that product now!!!

Programming team delivers a functional product.

4 days later...

Programming team: did our item save the world

Leader: I haven't gotten to it yet, I'll take a look by EoD.

Project Zero Dawn but it's funded by VCs

The sequel is when the original programmers die and a new team has to come in and figure out WTF their code is doing or even supposed to be doing.

As if, I, the programmer, will open a ticket for anything. Thats your job tester. Thats jour job PM. Im not putting this fire and I dont care if the company goes under because of it.

Black Mirrors Hated in the Nation makes fun of this briefly iirc