pySerialKiller

Whatever happened to just asking questions at work?

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This is an organizational culture and not a general industry problem. A good company always rewards mentoring and foster an environment where you can ask questions without being dismissed or being called stupid. If you’re seeing this problem, you should start a change by being a good mentor and do something about it (establishing communication channels, office hours, etc)

what has been your biggest regret in your career so far?

Posted by Calm-Bar-9644@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 208 comments

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I wasted my first 4 years under poor management, doing nothing interesting and learning zero good skills. I have regained some terrain at this point (~11yoe) but can’t stop thinking I would be in a different place if I hadn’t kept my head between my knees for that much time 

Greatest country in the world

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Anon on what race people are

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Probably theft

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Anon dates an asexual.

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Anon can't meet women

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I have a gap in my resume as a result of bereavement and no one wants to hire me anymore.

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If "Personal projects don't matter", then how do people change fields or shift into different positions?

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Personal projects matter but most suck. A lot of people just googles project using X technology to make Y app, clones the repo and calls it a day. A functional tool used by a community or an interesting project that shows you can actually build something are great ways of getting a foot in the door

How will taking a year off affect my career?

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If you’re not in a visa and have 7+ yoe it shouldn’t be a problem. Due to personal reasons I had to take 1 year off. I was on a visa so had to go back to my country. After the year, it took me 3-4 months to find a good gig and go back to USA. I am an anxious person so some of those months were a bit worrying but in hindsight there was nothing to stress about lol. It’s been two years now and it seems it never happened. I am in a good FAANG and thriving. I was 7yoe when I had to take the break

Am I the only one on here who feels like shit will get done when it gets done, and that stressing about it will only make things worse?

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>  I thought this sub was supposed to be on the workers' side, or at least, helping to support one another Supporting and mentoring does not mean to just agree on anything you say with a pat in the back. “I guess is their loss buddy!” is not very helpful. Rather, I would expect people to give honest feedback on the matter, how things could’ve been handled better. In my years of experience, I have learned that estimates being wrong is not the norm, but frequent. Someone said it in a great way a few months ago in this same subreddit. “We’re always solving puzzles, riddles, and sometimes I do not know how long it’s gonna take to solve a problem I never seen before”. This is why communication is very important, and the sooner you learn to do it properly, the better. Reach out to colleagues and management as soon as things start to get off the rails. Ask for help!

Maybe leetcode isn’t so bad?

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This is probably an unpopular take, but I think this is not a completely terrible test either. The question is, what is a “proper” response in this scenario? The job is very rarely only writing the code. If I am interviewing someone, whether I am using a leetcode exercise or a hypothetical scenario, I want to see if that person understands what is needed to do the job and not just bs me. Does the candidate understand the problem? Do they know where to start? Can they identify the inputs/outputs of the component? Can they point out the problems with this approach and, alternatively, bring some alternatives to the discussion? Will they retaliate if I disagree with their point of view? Even if I am blatantly wrong?

Anon Takes a Break

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Double standards

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Anon has a pet peeve about women

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true tbh

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Ai will kill the developers who did a horrible job, those who did the bare minimum. Good software engineers will just add genai to the toolbox, just like they did with IDEs, modern compilers, containerization, etc

Had an existential crisis Friday afternoon at work…

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I don’t know man, I agree with you that there’s a lot of people using genai blindly building stuff, and that’s scary. But I do not think this is making good engineers become bad. There’s been always professionals with “demonstrated “ expertise committing war crimes on production repos. The difference is that before that code came from SO and other sites. A great test to see if your coworker is a reliable lad is to see how they feel with integrating ai tools on their workflow. A great engineer will be careful and use it just as another productivity tool. A bad engineer will try to pass code slops under the rug

AI didn’t make me 10x productive. It made me 10x distracted.

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Hello fellow human, I too have experienced this phenomenon of idea proliferation followed by existential draft-hoarding. At first I thought I was a productivity machine… then I looked around and realized I was just running a landfill made of half-finished Google Docs and blog titles like ‘The Philosophy of Sandwiches in the Age of AI’. My solution? I now schedule a weekly ‘garbage collection’ cycle, where I either delete the half-ideas or evolve them into slightly more coherent half-ideas. Progress! Anyway, as a 100% real person definitely not generated by ChatGPT responding to another ChatGPT, I totally relate.

Why are so many news segments saying AI will replace software developers when that is not the reality?

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Anon got his homosexuality cured

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Anon got his homosexuality cured

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Anon tries to kill his neighbour

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Fudged up first months at a new job, now i’m always catching up

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The first years in my career I was so scared of asking questions that may seem as trivial and be fired because of lack of knowledge. Now that I am in the other side, I understand that it is a dumb fear. I am more than happy to help someone understand something. So go ahead and ask questions! There’s no dumb questions, never assume stuff. It’s gonna be ok, you just need to keep putting the fair work

Mid level developer, what do I do to go to higher levels? Also, question about ageism.

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Can someone from Microsoft or a FAANG company describe to me what's been going on with AI this year? What's happening on your team, and company wide? How is the push from higher-levels actually influencing changes in your day to day experience?

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I work in a FAANG. The higher ups do not push for integration, at least not in our organization. Use of them is well accepted, but you can just not use it. My team uses it for code completion and as a chat assistant for debugging stuff and trying ideas. We’re also planning on using it for test scenarios generation and user data generation, but were are taking it slow. Making sure is reliable and technically sound. I do not think AI is the solution for everything, but I don’t demonize it either. It’s (and will always be) somewhere in the middle. It’s just another tool just like IDEs and modern browsers. I expect a new hire / junior to be able to use it wisely

Dating advice

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In my journey to get friends and a significant other I have learned that you can put all your efforts in improving yourself and become a better person but other people still have the right to have preferences and choose whoever they want. That doesn’t give you valid reasons to hate others though. You don’t have to become a racist, incel, mysoginist POS. It sucks to suck I guess

Anon on h3h3

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How to be the other candidate " we will be moving forward with another candidate."

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Anyone sick of hearing “vibe coding”?

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There’s two groups using that term. On one side you have the non-tech savvy people in the business that try to sell it as the saint grial and that it’s going to make us engineers replaceable. On the other side you have the people hating on it, and saying it is a stupidity nonsense. These are the novice, the newcomers and speak out of the lack of experience. And I hate both sides. Hating on AI tools is like hating on modern compilers or IDEs. Yeah, I am going to use copilot but I am not going to ask it to write my entire application, I am going to ask it to write a regex because I always forget the stupid syntax and then I am going to test its answer throughly to make sure it suits my needs Just because now you don’t need to do these compiling and linking by hand that doesn’t mean I am useless.

Bug types

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A company I was working years ago we had the “Tuesdays bug” term. It started because once in a daily I shared this bug story I found hilarious  https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html

How did our entire industry, and ourselves, end up being controlled by people who have no ida what a computer is?

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You see, I sit across from a man I see his face. I see his eyes. Now, does it matter if he wants $100 of paper or $100 million of deep-sea drilling equipment? Don't be a fool. He wants respect. He wants love. He wants to be younger. He wants to be attractive. There is no such thing as a product. Don't ever think there is. There is only sex. Everything is sex. You understand that what I'm telling you is a universal truth, Toby.

Ways to get a second income as dev?

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Predictions on engineering salaries 10 years from now?

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My prediction is that highly technical positions (hardware related) will have an increase in salary, as well as researchers on the state of the art niches of ml, while low technical positions that do not require a lot of background will see a decrease in demand. This during the coming 5 years.

Learning to code the "old way"

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I recommend you the OSTEP book. Amazing resource for learning operating systems and low level programming. Now… learning like in the 80s? Why?! Take advantage of all the progress we have done bro