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by zwnow 2y ago
I am a solo dev for my company which is a semi profitable startup. Before I was hired the codebase was built by a hobbyist and remote workers. I was hired due to a language barrier with the remote staff. I barely have 4 years of experience
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by zwnow 2y ago
Thats also not applicable in a business setting. If you have multi million line codebase, you simply cant refactor within reasonable time. Also refactoring can cause issues wich then need further fixing and refactoring. If I touch code that
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by zwnow 2y ago
My company didn't even have time to keep the dependencies up to date so now we are stuck with Laravel 5 and Vue 2. Refactoring/Updating can be an incredible workload. Personally I'd say rewriting the whole thing would be more
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by zwnow 2y ago
Can't be held accountable for work conditions engineers dont have power over. If I dont have time to write tests, I cant be blamed for not writing tests. Especially now with hallucinating bs AI there is a whole load of more output expe
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by zwnow 2y ago
The issue is that management usually doesn't care. Personally I usually have about 3-4 days to implement something. If I can't deliver they will just look for more devs, yes. Quantity is what matters for management. New New New is
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by zwnow 2y ago
Thats not how software engineering works in a business setting though? Not a single company I have been in has the time to first fix the existing codebase before adding a new feature. The new feature is verbally guaranteed to the customers
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by zwnow 2y ago
Does SEO really matter still? I have seen a few videos that show how the SEO algorithm works a few months ago, at least googles, and you basically can't optimize in that regard.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Oooooor work in Europe. Plenty of work here. I still get 1 job offer per 1 application.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You are the reason people go for these kinda solutions. Hiring process is complete bs.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Lmao, you are the type of person actually believing these silicon valley bs. o3 is far, far away from AGI.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Talk to an expert? You are aware of them hallucinating right?
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by zwnow 2y ago
The article claims they are buggy, thats what I am refering to.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Never had a string related bug in any programming language in 4 years. I sincerely don't know what people talk about when they claim strings are buggy? What kinda tasks do these happen in?
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by zwnow 2y ago
This is not AGI lmao.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Its extremely easy. Just dont overthink, implement the stuff you gotta implement and move on. Simplicity generates flexibility. Its also easier to refactor if your app isnt a architectural docker mess.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Its actually a good question on who needs generics. It makes code unreadable and was never really useful in commercial products.
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by zwnow 2y ago
But do you really want to work at a company with managers that have zero technical experience? To me it always has been extremely annoying working with people that can't imagine the magnitude of work, that some "small" change
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by zwnow 2y ago
Yea lets build a whole docker setup for this little Sudoku app that never will have more than 100 users. I mean, for fun overengineering small projects can be a great learning experience but for work? Keep it simple, stupid. (In case it was
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by zwnow 2y ago
Yea my point was that people love to overcomplicate their stuff. Having a whole infrastructure for a personal project that isnt even started yet is insane.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Whats wrong with just using HTML, Js and CSS for personal projects?
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by zwnow 2y ago
Yea played myself for a while but didn't want to remember 300 openings for both colors. Chess is only fun if both people are equally bad at it.
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by zwnow 2y ago
Listening to chess event commentators it's all sequences
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by zwnow 2y ago
I use Neovim on Termux as well occasionally. With the right macros it's not too bad to write on phone. Fun for little stuff and languages that do not require tons of brackets.
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by zwnow 2y ago
This is stupid though. Advent of Code Leaderbords were always full of cheaters. At least since 2020 when I first started. If you want competitive programming, AoC is not the place for that.
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by zwnow 2y ago
If real life problems were as easy and defined as AoC problems we might be able to be replaced at some point. I highly doubt you can replace software devs otherwise. Who else is going to take the blame for software issues?
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by zwnow 2y ago
True. Leaderboards are and always have been full of cheaters.
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by zwnow 2y ago
I'd buy new glasses.
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by zwnow 2y ago
I am inconveniencing my time which is important to me. I dont have to build my apps accessible to everyone as they are clearly not purposed for everyone. Whats so hard to understand with that?
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by zwnow 2y ago
Ay thanks a lot! There are some very good takes in there and I fully agree on the B2B part. Repurposing projects is also a great idea I never thought about. I appreciate the tldr!
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by zwnow 2y ago
I'd appreciate a tldr if someone watches the video.

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