Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Your biggest competition is YOU.

Yeah sounds good in theory until I remember that I ain't getting any play from these companies.. so not much much to compete against

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

I have a phone screen coming up with a FAANG company. It's do or die for me since i've been out of work for a year now.

I ain't never prepare for an interview like this ever in my life, I've been living and breathing leetcode for weeks on end.

There is no room for failure. Pray for me, brehs

straight to the virtual onsite

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Is going for an AI related role smart when things are looking funny in the light for it

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Is going for an AI related role smart when things are looking funny in the light for it

what's the role? And AI isn't going anywhere.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

what's the role? And AI isn't going anywhere.

Not sure yet, it's probably a general SE posting with placement in an AI division. But I think as long as it's on a revenue generating project there's going to be some stability.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Not sure yet, it's probably a general SE posting with placement in an AI division. But I think as long as it's on a revenue generating project there's going to be some stability.

You caught up on your ML programming? Prompt Engineering?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

You caught up on your ML programming? Prompt Engineering?

Nope

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Best 5 programming courses?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Intro to Functional Programming (in Typescript)

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Yo.. this AI shyt is

I'm in the middle of building 3 full stack apps simultaneously. Next.js, React.. and another with React Native. And I'm doing it with 100% AI

ChatGTP, Claude, v0.dev and Cursor. I learned JavaScript, but I haven't applied none of my knowledge. Whenever Cursor fukks up, I ask Claude to fix it. I even use ChatGTP to build prompts to feed Claude.

And there's a new AI site that actually builds the file system, writes the code and gives you a preview. It's like having VS Code, but it's 100% AI. It will create the folders and download packages so you can actually see, and interact with your site while it's being built.

I honestly don't see the point in learning to code with the intent of writing websites or software. This AI shyt is spooky. If you're a senior developer, AI will basically cut you build time down by 70% or more. The ONLY limitations are accessibility.

Eventually, companies won't even outsource web or software development. As long as you have a basic understanding, all you gotta really know how to do is use IDE's.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I'm in the middle of building 3 full stack apps simultaneously. Next.js, React.. and another with React Native. And I'm doing it with 100% AI

How complex are the applications?

ChatGTP, Claude, v0.dev and Cursor. I learned JavaScript, but I haven't applied none of my knowledge. Whenever Cursor fukks up, I ask Claude to fix it. I even use ChatGTP to build prompts to feed Claude.

Is it fixing syntax issues or is it fixing logic issues?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

How complex are the applications?

Is it fixing syntax issues or is it fixing logic issues?

Not only does it fix it, it apologizes for fukking up, tell you where it fukked up at, explain what it did to fix it and rewrite the code. Claude even helped me set up supabase. This shyt is wild as fukk. At one point I was still chugging along learning JavaScript and I just said fukk it. I didn't feel like learning the complexities of React. I just starting learning to use prompts and planning out what I wanted to build. The only thing these models can't do yet is pull from more libraries. But in about another year they probably will.

Time management is the biggest thing though. I try not to waste questions, because it eats up tokens. I wasted a lot of times asking it to add or change shyt because I went in blind. Now I use ChatGTP to actually map out what I want organize the project into phases and just build from there. If I want to do a custom design, I will fine something that's already been done copy the code, feed to to Claude and it will build it for me.

I would say the most work I do, is copying all the code in my files to txt docs. One of the setbacks with Claude is when you have long chats, it eats up your useage. So before I end the chat, I ask it to write a summary of what was done, and use that to start a new chat. Cursor is dope too, but I don't really use it that much. But these models are only $20 a month. The only AI that I haven't paid for is midjourney. It use to be free but they started charging for it because so many people are using it.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

How complex are the applications?

Is it fixing syntax issues or is it fixing logic issues?

Oh.. and another trick I do to get less mistakes. I always copy and paste my code into individual text files. Then i create a file tree. I asked ChatGTP to create a python script that numbers each line. Then I attach to Claude and if I want to add or make any changes, it will write it and have the exact line I need to update. So far the most lines of code I've had on one file is 467. This is extremely useful. Before, I would just ask it to rewrite the entire page when it changed a few lines of code. But what was happening, is it was making edits to lines, I didn't want changed. Or it would leave something out. The only con, is this method is a little be slower, but its way more accurate and less mistakes.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Even with AI.... trying to build complex apps is hard as fukk It's hella tedious.

 

[bnew]

Even with AI.... trying to build complex apps is hard as fukk It's hella tedious.

what are the steps to take to build an app with AI?

i've only really tried and been successful with scripts.

early on with chatgpt 3.5, i did attempt and obviously failed to build a vlc plugin.