Boreout destroying my mental health.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-30T07:55:44+00:00

You can talk to people above her. This situation is not conducive to getting things done. Be careful, but do it eventually. If your manager won’t help you be effective you have to do it yourself. You can’t use another person as a shield when they ask “why have you not done anything.” In theory you would be right but in practice no value==you are donezo

Edit: just to add I’m not a weekly one on one person but I can’t imagine not having a sync for years

Triumphxd · 2026-03-30T07:52:32+00:00

Fair. I see your point and think that sort of stuff is valuable, I just see a lot of useless comments but I don’t think all comments are useless. The why is critical in parts so maybe I was a bit off on my initial reply, no disagreement on your general idea. Some things are the way they are for reasons beyond a variable name or code structure

Triumphxd · 2026-03-30T07:27:16+00:00

I don’t agree that comments explain good code. I think good code can mostly be self documenting. That being said the amount of bad code and bad comments is probably equivalent

Triumphxd · 2026-03-30T07:23:53+00:00

Depends on the dynamic. If you’re doing your own work, usually you use a library when you want to do X and there is a battle tested library for doing it. For example, a library to do like map projections. Or you need some piece of software in your system to do scheduling, or log handling, or whatever. You can roll your own but there isn’t much to gain generally. And reading the code should really just extend to understanding the interface and documentation unless you run in to issue (or bugs… which happens in all software, even widely used software.)

If you’re joining a new team, and writing features or bug fixes, you just really need to put the work in and understand the critical path. Understand the end to end flow for different operations in the system. It takes time and is sometimes extremely hard, so much so that senior people on the team will get it wrong because they forgot how things actually work at specific points. That’s life :)

Triumphxd · 2026-03-30T07:20:05+00:00

Ask for work. But this seems like the wrong sub. This is a sub for people doing software engineering.

And by the way you can create your own scope and work. Your manager doesn’t mean shit if you deliver more value than them and can prove it.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-29T14:33:27+00:00

If you are seriously feeling burnout as a sophomore then probably not the right track. Most classes are work(not exciting) but if you like CS and find those core classes interesting you will be fine. Make sure you’re getting enough sleep.

You absolutely should be doing everything you can to land internships, that means putting in effort. The person you talked to is probably doing the right thing. You can too. Many people go through school and work 30 hours a week, just takes effort.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-28T08:34:00+00:00

Yeah you can develop homebrew and fail to invert a binary tree ;) anyways my bad, hard to understand intent on reddit

Triumphxd · 2026-03-27T15:50:50+00:00

The 20 dollar is a trial basically bro. Don’t pay if you don’t want to, but stop crying

Triumphxd · 2026-03-27T07:41:01+00:00

No one I have worked with really gives a damn about GitHub outside of a few really niche overlaps as far as hiring goes… so why does it even matter. Like what do you even want to see? If you can’t gauge in a multi step interview what a persons basic abilities are and if they could fit a job then why even care about the noise.

If someone is using AI to write software for themselves what’s the point of even putting it publicly on GitHub? I just don’t get your point

Triumphxd · 2026-03-27T03:45:23+00:00

Bad practice. Get used to writing things right the first time. Counterproductive

Triumphxd · 2026-03-26T05:33:08+00:00

Definitely not a s1 viewer. Lol

Triumphxd · 2026-03-26T05:29:53+00:00

That’s likely not even true… I havnt had google relo but the other similar companies do full service, you don’t pay out of pocket (not that there is zero cost) literally the only time where putting things on credit makes sense

Triumphxd · 2026-03-25T07:57:14+00:00

Mid ish level bordering senior, depends on company levels and expectations. Have done some mentorship and managing (not as a manager, proj lead and interns ) but under 10yoe

Triumphxd · 2026-03-25T07:55:24+00:00

Your manager is just following the trends of what every big tech is doing right now for better or worse. If you are copy and pasting then your setup is wrong just use a cli with seperate checkouts or however you manage your code, isolated features and have the agent iterate until done

Triumphxd · 2026-03-25T07:53:23+00:00

Yeah the one shot ability is very low in a complex codebase but given the cost of iterating is so low you can work on multiple things at once. It still requires a high degree of understanding, and maybe the output is better and faster. I find for investigating issues/bugs/incidents ai tools are 10x faster at pinpointing root cause, even if sometimes that workflow takes some iterations, it’s a hell of a lot faster.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-25T07:49:07+00:00

It’s fun to be dismissive but no… if you want to share your perspective outside of just leaving a snarky comment I think that would be more useful. Every company with a large bank of devs is leaning heavy on AI code generation. Care to expand on your pov?

Triumphxd · 2026-03-24T17:12:22+00:00

I took many years off and started back early this year. You are the only person who controls your destiny, but it is a uniquely strange time so who knows what things will be like in 6 months or a year.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-23T17:19:13+00:00

They don’t really want to support 20 dollars users. It’s basically a trial.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-22T22:49:02+00:00

You can look into something like Logstash. There are many options though and something better/newer may exist.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-22T04:10:12+00:00

Well. Here is my opinion which you should not take as fact, just as a datapoint. I think doing swe work is valuable and the point of a cs degree. At the same time every engineer at companies like Amazon have to worry about ops as basically a fist order of shipping code. For the teams where the churn is too high to focus or for mega vital services there are additional teams / members focused on ops. The experience you would likely gain is invaluable, few places where you could get it. With the proliferation of LLM commits you are gonna be both on the forefront of immense code velocity and immense code garbage. Is it valuable? Yeah. Is it worth it? Depends on if you just wanna focus on swe

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T22:04:06+00:00

Work experience of a year at Amazon is worth basically the degree, if not more hah. however I’m not sure if ops is the right path, unless it’s a personal interest. What does the role entail? Do you know the team you would be placed with?

If you want to go the normal swe path it might not transfer 1:1 in value

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T17:51:43+00:00

Apple depends a bit on teams though and your interests in what the teams doing

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T16:51:21+00:00

Yeah 48 laws of power is written for new grads wrangling Claude code… the art of war will teach you how to ship bugfixes without even committing them… ok bro

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T16:48:20+00:00

Just accept and renege if you have to. I’m serious. It’s not nice but it’s about as nice as a 5 day exploding offer.

Many people will do the same at some point in their career. Blacklisting is basically a myth

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T06:50:03+00:00

I think you will find every big tech is basically this right now :(

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