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>I’m starting every morning with a LeetCode problem. Keeping with your example, this is the equivalent of going to the gym just to do a single set on the bench
by jplusequalt 17d ago
>I’m starting every morning with a LeetCode problem.
Keeping with your example, this is the equivalent of going to the gym just to do a single set on the bench press.
Your brain is still atrophying.
- cyberpunk 17d agoSure about that? The effort put into a leetcode medium or hard is usually way above the kind of code i’m mostly doing at work — and realistically i only have at most 2 hours a day of that level of work in me, the rest is the autopilot code, reviews meetings, docs etc. I’ve found aoc/leetcode pretty much reversed the accidental atrophy for me
- eska 17d agoLeetcode is about learning an algorithm/data structure. Programming in general is about much more than that. Knowing minimax and ring buffers doesn’t help much in knowing whether what your LLM does makes sense. For that you need to work on more open ended questions.
- sph 17d agoThere is more to software engineering than solving code puzzles. What about debugging, writing clean code, writing effective tests, architecture, optimization, profiling etc.? None of these are exercised by doing leetcode. Use it or lose it.
- cyberpunk 17d agoWell i’ve been working through adventofcode in various languages and im def spending a lot of time in my debugger. shrug
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- andreybaskov 16d agoIn my opinion going to the gym for one bench press is better than sitting at home watching tv. Would love to hear your suggestions on how to stay in ”mental” shape in the AI age.
- jplusequalt 10d ago>Would love to hear your suggestions on how to stay in ”mental” shape in the AI age. Work on stuff without the use of AI? I am building a Vulkan game engine in my spare time. I use LLMs sparingly for search, rubber ducking, and occasionally code review. 100% of the code is handwritten. I could surely vibe code this project to completion in a few weeks, but then I would have robbed myself of learning how to build a game engine in Vulkan. I also have read ~20 books in the past year. Reading helps exercise a different part of my brain (and it's enjoyable!).