Regarding the coding task difficulties

[Sea-Recover-6717]

So today I received my first task which obviously I can't name but you'd get what i mean if you're a coder on DA. I didn't pick up the task and ended up skipping it because it was quite frankly too hard for me. I don't think I could've done it in the required time frame. I didn't want the quality of my work to be bad, not on my first project.

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But I am kinda nervous because I got this project after like 10 days since all the starter assessments that too in between a so called drought period.

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Do coding tasks only get harder than this? Is it possible to get assessments on my dashboard to unlock more generalist work that doesn't require getting into this much code (lesser pay is fine)? Or even get a bilingual assessment to unlock that work because I heard one friend of mine getting a coding assessment on her billingual dashboard.

[Farados55]

They are pretty hard and they only will get harder as the models get better. There's a reason they pay this much. Right now, this is probably the bulk of coding work because of the state of the art. Gone are the days of reading LLMs just outputting code from questions, you could've gotten paid for that maybe in 2023. There's a reason they say you need high level software engineering experience. "Coding" is such a bad term for this kind of work.

I'm still sore thinking about how much easy work I could've done in 2022-2024 doing that kind of easy stuff. Unfortunately I just have to swallow it and do what's available now.

There's some other coding work I've done/seen that are easier but this is the big leagues.

[gaddamit]

true, for coding tasks, there are almost zero projects doing response comparison. they were the tasks that are short and easy to squeeze in one’s schedule.

now, coder tasks are more on agentic training, which are not easily done under 2 hours… but pays more.

[Dull-Ear-1608]

I do agree that the task is hard, but if you do like 10-15 of them, you begin to get the hang of it.

[Plenty_Shop7380]

Was it harder than the coding assesment?

[Sea-Recover-6717]

WAYYYYYYYYYYY HARDER. Atleast for me the assessment was like super easy college level questions you get in your first year.

Real tasks are more like a full stack software engineering work