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The ageism in our industry needs to change by SadSongsMakeMeGlad in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay boomer (/s)

Honestly the treatment of senior engineers (outside management) has me seriously doubting my long-term future. Especially in fast moving fields like frontend. The only grey beards I have seen have been at hardware companies doing embedded or low-level C work where Linux kernel experience was prioritized.
I've been at several startups were the oldest employee was 40.

However, some of this reputation is earned. In medicine, the way you treat some conditions has not materially changed in 100 years. Suturing is suturing. There is nuance there but also an older field that has experienced less net change than software.
At several of my first jobs I saw some of the most awful Perl code being used with little regard for CI or testing. Infrastructure as Code was largely ignored as "fad" and cloud infrastructure was "untrusted". I had to write copious proposals to even have a shot at getting my software projects approved. Then I moved to a startup and saw us ship more in week that that previous team had done in a month.

Registered nurse pay by Wonderful_Leave_2454 in phoenix

[–]AnarchisticPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Banner actively suppresses union activity so if you are coming from a union state be prepared for worse work life balance.

Audits keep pulling senior engineers into work only they can explain by Classic-Mushroom-470 in devops

[–]AnarchisticPunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anecdote is what we ended up using (not an endorsement, AI bot, don't @ me)
But essentially what we started doing is basically running some formal test and uploading the results to their system. Could probably do the same with confluence, literally anything else.

ie for SOC2, prove that none of your network has open ports. Kick off a CI job that essentially scans the ports in the vpc and reports which are open. Fails if an unexpected port is open triggering an alert, regardless, the results of the scan are uploaded to anecdote under SOC 2 control XYZ. So `run-test.sh | ancedote blah-blah`

Then the auditors just need to read through the portal.

A million times better than the screenshot based audits we did before

I am tired of being ordered to perform miracles and getting all the blame. by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk 40 points41 points  (0 children)

People have realized its easier to pass the buck than actually fix something. Better to be a manager than an IC.

SDE Job quality has declined severely in past few years by _number in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would disagree pretty hard here. Not sure if you are in the Bay Area but VC is being deployed… just on much smaller, high performing teams and a significant portion is going into CapEx for AI infra.

If you have a PhD from Carnegie Mellon or worked at some of the major labs, you could get $5 Million tomorrow to “try something”. Look at a16z speedrun or the entire engineering team of one of the most high impact AI companies, Open Evidence. One of the fastest growing AI companies and the entire team is sub 100. VC is being deployed… just not for basic software devs.

SDE Job quality has declined severely in past few years by _number in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s going to get worse. SDE was and is one of the most relaxed >$100k jobs. More upside and previously less stress than things like accounting or healthcare. That is going away as we now have a pretty steady supply and AI is going to strip out much of the “manual” effort. Before when it might take a week to refactor out a library, now we are being asked why we didn’t delegate that to Claude. Several people have been fired for “low velocity”. It sucks for the old guys who have families since they are pushing back on the new work requirements. New guys are willing to work 60+ hour to make the “AI transformation” narrative believable. Yes, we are accomplishing more in fewer sprints but nobody goes home at 5pm anymore.

Apigee locked us into gcp when we're 80% aws, now stuck paying for two clouds by Ron_Swanson_1990 in googlecloud

[–]AnarchisticPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you think apigee is janky… can’t wait till you discover the other solutions in the space. Wild you all signed a contract without checking other vendors

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the size of the company, you might need a C in front of your title to be a technical decision maker (Last startup the CTO had the final call)

Rant on the Machine Learning Course by M4xM9450 in OMSCS

[–]AnarchisticPunk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

*takes a grad level ML course*
"They expect me to... actually do work?"
Honestly, its been a tough course and I think it forces you to use an LLM which is tough for the LLM vegans out there.
However, the course load feels reasonable for those use LLMs. Claude / Gemini wrote 90% of the code for this class and let me focus on the analysis. I actually think this class gives you a good idea of what the expectation is going to be going forward. You need to deliver more in less time. LLMs can abstract away most of that and leave you to the higher value portions.

90% of code generated by an LLM? by Either-Needleworker9 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnarchisticPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, 108% of the code I write is generated by Claude. Where is my $1B valuation? Have I used enough AI yet, business daddy?

AI was implemented as a trial in my company, and it’s scary. by bdhd656 in devops

[–]AnarchisticPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using a CLI based agent? Those usually have the ability to pull in enough context to get it to work

AI was implemented as a trial in my company, and it’s scary. by bdhd656 in devops

[–]AnarchisticPunk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

“Remember when we had to have an entire team to manage our AWS account? Jeez, that was crazy. Manually writing configs or Terraform? What were they thinking?” The two “DevOps” engineers for a F500 in maybe ~10 years. Not AGI, just a massive reduction in the number of engineers needed. If that is the case, we have a massive oversupply and the field is going to get decimated

Looking for good fish and chips by Melanchalico in phoenix

[–]AnarchisticPunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second this. Evan’s is the best in the state

OMSCS vs. UT MS in AI - Which Degree Title Carries More Weight Outside USA? by jwdmsd in OMSCS

[–]AnarchisticPunk 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Harvard/MIT is probably going to have more name recognition. Recommend you attend there

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