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All PR's approved and merged at end of every sprint

Posted by Brief-Knowledge-629@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 97 comments

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Sounds like you have a mess. Pick a technology approach. Only work on useful features. Only merge things you want to keep. You are just building a garbage pile.

How do you guys keep track of your car maintenance?

Posted by TheWeb1000@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 99 comments

Managers decided AI is worth 5x speedup; how do I explain to them how it really works?

Posted by chaitanyathengdi@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 313 comments

If American cars are unreliable, why do domestic pick up trucks have such high resale value?

Posted by anyusernaem@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 706 comments

Are modern CVTs finally reliable enough to rival traditional automatics, or do they still wear out faster?

Posted by EvelynClede@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 206 comments

Raise Taxes on Unoccupied commercial real estate every year

Posted by grzy7316x@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 38 comments

Junior devs who learned to code with AI assistants are mass entering the job market. How is your team handling it?

Posted by Ambitious-Garbage-73@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 502 comments

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They don't know what they are doing. This is purely dangerous. It's infantile and going to cause tons of problems. QI can be used to boost your productivity but if you can't read the language because someone else wrote it then you are missing tons of details that are Important. We are all going to be fucked by this problem

Dealer wants $780 to tell me what's wrong with my car before they even fix it. Is this normal now?

Posted by 50lies@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 306 comments

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Don't get service at a dealership ever. They are always over charging. Talk to various ships and see if they will do a diagnostic on your car for free or what it will cost

Why isn’t Volkswagen more popular in the U.S.?

Posted by phtphongg@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 630 comments

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Cheap parts. Bad design decisions. Lots of repairs I have had two vw in the life of my family. They were both cars that were often in the shop. Not worth it

House Burping - Do Americans just not normally have your house windows open?

Posted by Jsherman13@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 1938 comments

Why is it harder to explain a process than to run it?

Posted by NobodyDiligent7152@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 41 comments

Is this dealer quote ridiculous or reasonable?

Posted by la-rides@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 25 comments

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You don't need to do those things as often as they say. Power steering fluid will last a very long time. Same with transmission fluid. Much longer than the recommendation of replacing. You can buy a filter and replace it yourself in 5 mins.

Lying to my superiors about using AI is the only way I can address tech debt

Posted by CandidPiglet9061@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 183 comments

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AI is a tool to help you code. I should not be used to code for you. That's not helpful and often problematic. I have to warn junior devs all the time. Use it to help figure something out. but check everything it does against your own brain.

CEO retired. How do you politely say "no" without burning a bridge?

Posted by oaomcg@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 2436 comments

Generational junk dumping

Posted by Double_Device_1626@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 692 comments

Senior engineer unsure how much to intervene with junior on time-sensitive project

Posted by codeguru42@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 118 comments

Have you received the flu vaccine this year?

Posted by Stubborn_Strawberry@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1897 comments

What is considered a high performance engineer?

Posted by flakeeight@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 113 comments

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Ones that I can give just enough direction and they deliver what I want. They will figure out the details. They will follow existing framework and design processes . And they deliver high quality, low defect work in a timely manner. I actually expect my high performance engineers to be sitting around doing very little as they polish off an assignment rather than working 10 hours a day They also don't build extra complexity for the purpose of the functionality.

GenX throwing in the towel

Posted by Safe_Rhubarb5780@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1542 comments

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By this age people are jaded. Dating apps make things worse. They magnify shitty dating behavior. Ghosting, dishonesty. Dating is hard. If you don't find a compatible person to be with it's not worth it to be with anyone. It's too much

How many of us are still running for exercise?

Posted by BraveLittleFrog@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 553 comments

Anyone else craving a "little women" style Christmas?

Posted by Pleasant_Dog_302@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 97 comments

Anyone else craving a "little women" style Christmas?

Posted by Pleasant_Dog_302@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 97 comments

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I did this over a decade ago. I told my family don't buy me gifts . I am not buying my adult siblings gifts or my parents. Just the kids. Also for the kids less. Like 1 or 2 things. Because the holiday was hours of opening useless shit . All we did was open gifts. No one talked about anything meaningful or really spent time together. The gifts have gone down in volume for non kids. But the gifts for kids for a while went down and now are back to stupid levels. I don't like it. What does little women mean ? That doesn't make sense to me

Gen X guys: what scents do you wear?

Posted by c0pp3rdrag0n@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 798 comments

How's your 401K?

Posted by GoatBnB@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 554 comments

I went to parts of my 40th high school reunion and maybe you should think about it too.

Posted by chillaxtion@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 392 comments

What’s a huge (SFW) insult that only GenX would take personally?

Posted by WileyCoyote7@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1000 comments

Does anyone still intentionally cook too much to have " planned overs"?

Posted by meltonr1625@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 282 comments

Parents aging and downsizing - will we be this stubborn?

Posted by justmisspellit@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1074 comments

Broke Kids…

Posted by Bjorn_CyBorg1@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 2752 comments

What cologne are we wearing?

Posted by Spot_in_the_Sky@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1583 comments

Do or did you allow your teenagers to have their romantic partners sleep over? Did your parents let you?

Posted by Safe_Chicken_6633@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1007 comments

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It's one thing to allow them to have sex at my house. It's a whole another thing to let them sleep over. I don't think that's okay. They need to go home to their house. I mean it really depends on the situation.

It's my 49th birthday, and I don't care.

Posted by Ralph--Hinkley@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 187 comments

Soft skills matter more than technical skills?

Posted by Huge-Leek844@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 149 comments

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I have known so many good technical people that can't explain to their peers what their idea is. They can go do the work on their own. But they can't explain it. They will always just be the ones following orders, designs, because if you can't communicate then you are stuck in your own head.

Eating at the Table

Posted by Miserable_Jacket_129@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 655 comments

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I eat at a table when others are around. I expect them to eat with me. When it's just me I eat at my work desk or in the living room watching tv. Like right now

Do you have any prescriptions ready? Or Do we need any pills?

Posted by Embarrassed_Flan_869@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 116 comments

Are hand me downs just not a thing anymore?

Posted by LocalLaborLeader@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 284 comments

Team uses old tech stack, how to maintain employability?

Posted by throwawayunity2d@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 36 comments

Great bosses ruined it

Posted by aLifeOfPi@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 26 comments

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Yeah I have had really good teams that worked so well. Just 6 of us and we could deliver projects with such ease and knew their role. Nowadays the team of ten doesn't even come close. We are okay. But the lack of cohesive workings and knowledge and experience.

Not including everyone’s opinion for the sake of progress?

Posted by aLifeOfPi@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 49 comments

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Get his authority explicitly loudly. Ask for the manager to see you as decision maker. People are allowed to have an opinion, but the ultimate decision is yours. Ask for that authority to be communicated

Cautionary tale: Company is crumbling, in part due to tech debt

Posted by EffectIcy6651@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 270 comments

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Time to get your resume polished. This place is going to lose the customers and fold. Unless someone starts to rearchitect and fix the core issues.

Laid Off - Offered severance after 6 months of knowledge transfer

Posted by renderDopamine@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 121 comments

Old man tip of the day : drink an electrolyte

Posted by Responsible_Tear_163@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 602 comments

Am I burning bridges or looking out for myself?

Posted by masta_beta69@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 70 comments

No celebrity death has ever hit me hard. Is that a Gen X thing?

Posted by HillbillyEEOLawyer@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 4105 comments

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I don't know these celebrities. Why would it hit me hard? People I know and care about sure it hits hard. But strangers? Nope. I don't have that kind of relationship with celebs

Anyone else hate 'The Church' because of your parents?

Posted by blahblahblahuser@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 457 comments

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I was raised Catholic. But we went a lot when kids on Sunday. But as we got older only on holidays: Easter and Xmas. I was asked to confirm. I said nope. I don't want that. They left it be. But really they can't hear that I don't like religion and I don't believe. It's fine we don't talk about it. Religion is bad honestly. I am anti religious. But I dont tell people what to do. I just have weird feelings if they are religious. Sheeple?

I became important (IE: the only person who develops software) at a small company. Now I don’t get days off.

Posted by rebornfenix@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 124 comments

Coding feels secondary to stakeholder work

Posted by green_apples57@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 121 comments

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The hardest part is understanding what you are automating and doing it the simplest way. You can build an elaborate system no one wants to use , or that does lots of bells and whistles no one uses. But that doesn't help get their process done. Software exists to help people do work. It doesn't just exist because you are a coder.

Am I the only one who feels like a fraud working on AI projects that are basically hype-fueled and doomed?

Posted by AroxCx@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 125 comments

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You support and complete the project at hand while also bringing up the reliability issues. That's being responsible. If the higher ups don't want to hear that then write it down and put in the shortcomings somewhere. If you are ever called out on it say I documented the issues but management didn't want to hear it.

Moving into Management too Early

Posted by Shehzman@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 63 comments

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I dislike any place that thinks moving people into management is the only way to promote them It shows lack of maturity in that technical high performing individuals are not valued for what they do best So many tech IC were pushed into management and they aren't good at it. They don't relate to people well and they don't manage projects well.

What is your preferred Software Development Process (SDP) and why?

Posted by zayelion@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 78 comments

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All those methodologies are just ways you organize and do work Ultimately you need to get the requirements understood. The process you are automating and all the little details. It's really more about the team, culture and teamwork that actually.akea the delivery happen. Honestly scrum and agile just leaves the details late in the process for me, when I don't like that at all. Not that I do full water fall but I want the core design to be 80% flushed out before I begin.