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Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

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I saw the LLM leaderboard and it is nowhere accurate.

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how do you deal with being the only person who knows a critical part of the codebase?

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Is this becoming a common trend or has it always been this way.

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Every time you fire an employee for a major first time mistake, you paid the training costs and then didn’t show up. Now the lesson needs to be paid for again with someone else at an unknown time.

How do you talk to your EM about job security anxiety affecting your performance?

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Announcement: We've Updated The Rules, and April Is Finally Over

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What we can learn from the Atlassian layoff video

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Windyvale@reddit

What do you qualify as productivity exactly? Senior engineers and older employees are not as easy to quantify as newer employees. They have a lot of knowledge and understanding that drives the more easily quantified productivity of newer and more junior engineers. They can also accomplish more with less actual “work”while avoiding many pitfalls that would destroy productivity of many people who would have missed these. Of course there is a range and I’ve seen unproductive ones myself even after correcting for the above, but I’m wondering if you are accounting for that? As for the guy in the video, after watching it I would say he has potentially a lot going for him. It was more like a resume in video form than anything. He marketed himself well and I would not have thought to do it this way.

Token Based Billing Changes June 1

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What kind of songs or background audio do you listen to while coding or solving problems?

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Windyvale@reddit

Jason Lewis has a bunch of awesome playlists I have been using for years. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLveg0IEcZWN7eQvidQOrkxiBvH0Skewwv&si=CvaoHrYdgJv1C0B2

What kind of songs or background audio do you listen to while coding or solving problems?

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"Top-grade" Interview

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I can't take Software Development anymore

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I can't take Software Development anymore

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How do you balance deep understanding vs fast ticket execution?

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Honestly it’s best to just spend time on your own improving your abilities so you can move on from jobs like this. No point gaining deep understanding of a system in a job that won’t reward it.

Anybody ever spend time "unemployed" but pursuing a personal project, and then eventually jump back in to a new job?

Posted by SaltyBawlz@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 44 comments

the fastest way to slow down a project is to add more developers to it

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How is hiring in our industry so unrelated to the skills required to actually being an engineer (Senior/Principal/Otherwise)?

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Because this industry is controlled by people who don’t understand what it actually takes to build software. Proof? Shoveling AI down our throats as hard as possible is a more recent one.

Programming Still Sucks

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Eventually they decided to just hire an intern with a couple of accounting classes, gave them a subscription to Claude, and told them to rebuild the system. The entire executive team gives themselves a round of massive bonuses for “AI-enabled low cost initiatives.” In 3 months, they will proceed to lay off most of the senior staff and do it again.

Programming Still Sucks

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Extremely well written but it gets one thing wrong. Some executive will look for a line item in their spreadsheet that matches the value of what they need to recover from bad decisions, and it will match Sara’s salary. No more Sara.

How do you handle workplace disagreements when you think you're right?

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Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial

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I can feel my skills atrophying and it's literally painful

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Thats not really a solution though, right? At best it results in shallow understanding if it’s not used and struggled with. The understanding doesn’t cement itself and form connections to actual skills. You can read a bunch of cooking recipes and techniques, but if you never actually cook, can you say you are an expert?

Know better than to be fooled by hyped buzzwords - how I handle that

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lost my creativity and hunger to learn

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I do gardening, car detailing, carpentry, cooking, etc. Do something that keeps hands busy and your mind on something that isn’t coding.

Architecture decisions made in meetings disappear faster than the ones written in PRs

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Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone

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We're getting overrun by stupidity, how to cope?

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We're getting overrun by stupidity, how to cope?

Posted by NightSp4rk@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 102 comments

There’s a specific type of person in every wannabe tech org

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I feel AI has done the opposite. It’s given them a “fake it harder” button they can press to produce a demo that you’ll now be responsible for the foreseeable future.

osu's 2016 source code was re-leaked by an ORC user (this time it's the full git)

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We should refuse to review vibe code PRs

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I still avoid AI in production coding. Am i slowing myself down?

Posted by hireme-plz@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 195 comments

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You are looking at long term return over short term benefits. That is the correct approach to sustainable processes. Businesses could learn from you. They won’t but they could.

Anyone think the job hopping culture produces too many engineers that don’t care about maintainability?

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Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

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Struggling to influence decisions as a new Senior Engineer

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How can you learn about software architecture, systems design, “big picture development”… if you’re not getting that at work?

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Windyvale@reddit

“Examine ways to architect, design, and build software - particularly distributed systems - that stands up to the typhoon winds of a flash mob, a Slashdotting, or a link on Reddit.” Not wrong on that last point.

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

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How to deal with drop in quality of candidates?

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Walking through a personal project in a technical interview

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Take a solved (or unsolved for fun) problem from your current systems and see how they work through it together. Stop falling back on ceremonial crap and cut to the chase: can they do the work or not.

Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy

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Building for Yourself vs. Working for Others

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Are y’all getting a lot of overly confident bad candidates?

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Is the grass greener on the other side

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Most Asked Interview Questions on Junior Level Network Engineer Interviews

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How do you actually remember code without just looking everything up constantly?

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Had an onsite meeting with a ceo last week

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Navigating being abandoned by management

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"Before anyone says it, I do not believe we are about to be laid off (knock on wood). We are a core piece of development here, and have been creating most of the tooling for the past couple years with little bugs, and essentially not outages. I alone have been doing most major development for the last 7 years, again with few bugs and personally no outages (yet). Most notably, our feature has already been sold, like a ton, and they are relying on it due to a lot of contractual obligations and good will with our customers." I don't want to be the bearer of bad news here, but I designed an entire product from scratch on my own and it runs critical infrastructure at their customers. It had every mark of what you mentioned here, and they still let me go for "restructuring." Don't put your head in the sand, if only to protect your family.

Getting Laid Off Without Warning Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Workplace Loyalty

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I’ve seen them purged wholesale but usually because of an acquisition. Not personally seen one held accountable for poor planning that results in the need for front-line layoffs.

Getting Laid Off Without Warning Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Workplace Loyalty

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Executives should be fired first but since they make that decision they will never hold themselves responsible for leading the company poorly.

Why is communication so overlooked by Senior Devs?

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