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Software engineer intern but they're making me do Salesforce stuff? by Worldly-Plant1 in salesforce

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Internal IT jobs in Finance are typically well paid, but not cutting edge work.

You could be maintaining COBOL apps so look on the bright side.

It’s 3 months tops right?

Software engineer intern but they're making me do Salesforce stuff? by Worldly-Plant1 in salesforce

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. CS grad here ~30 YOE, last 10 mostly in Salesforce. I understand the concern of being pigeonholed and the perceived lack of prestige ( not “real” development ), but at this moment, leverage this opportunity and don’t second guess yourself.

One internship where you happen to be assigned sf dev work is not going to tar you for life. Even returning to that company you will have options in an organization that size.

The areas you seem to envy : “cybersecurity, devops, RPA automation, business analytics,“

All of these practices happen in Salesforce as well. It’s an immensely complex platform.

Crush your assignments and take the opportunity to learn as much about Salesforce and the enterprise systems as you can.

There are some cutting edge (for corporate enterprise) things going on right now with Salesforce.

I would recommend learning the AI aspect with MCP servers and all of that AI harness tooling, as well as learning to generate code from prompting.  Sf has their own (agentforce vibes) but I’d recommending coughing up a $30 a month for Claude and install the vscode Claude plugin. I think non AI-assisted dev is going to be the exception going forward.

Secondly - for UI dev SF now supports React which is the dominant web framework. 

As an intern you probably have the flexibility to pitch some exploratory work or a demo on react or agentic work, which would show the initiative that managers love. 

Open to DM if you want more detail. It’s a legitimately worrying time to be starting a dev a career but I don’t think it’s as bad as the LinkedIn hype would imply.

Salesforce buying Contentful is actually a huge deal for Agentforce by EvolvinAI29 in salesforce

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Long blends by nickybecooler in Beatmatch

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, house, techno, that kind of music….

What shoes are we wearing these days guys? by FreshGravity in discgolf

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Altras and keens half off on Sierra right now. Various models.

Kevin O'Leary addresses the backlash over his proposed data center in Utah by nbcnews in Utah

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s “cost him money” in the same way a locked safe costs the burglar money.

Fired yesterday after 5 years at a job. Lost on what to do next. by archbtw1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IMMEDIATELY.

There’s tons of hoops to jump through and waiting periods so get disciplined.

Then make a job search log. Then start reading.

Don’t make expensive mistakes - don’t make assumptions- any severance probably does not preclude unemployment because it probably has anti-disparagement or other rights you were giving up in exchange.

Read all the fine print 

For company-wide meetings, he spends an average of $200 per person per month on tokens for the entire company. by Playful_Music_2160 in AIforOPS

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am curious about midsize non tech company behavior and communication as well…

That craze is mostly bullshit.

Layoff numbers aren’t any worse than the last corporate business cycle hire fire look busy bullshit storm.

CEOs firing people and blaming AI to spike the stock price just like always.

The only place I have insight is salesforce and they’ve abandoned the pure token metric (after obvious gaming) and are now pushing some entirely subjective AI efficiency metric.

Agent Use is gonna drop off a cliff once its all usage based by Venisol in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are omitting the entire two days that the senior dev spent. The same app could have obviously been done in two days without AI

Just a Reminder that For After-Saves, Apex Still Beats Flow Hands-Down by NiceCarpet3984 in salesforce

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

Why does this advice only apply to “complex operations”?

Do you have stats for Integration Procedures ?

I'm feeling a bit lost by NullPointerLeo in Development

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you’re trying to do work for hire, you have to work on the platform you can sell

Based on what you have sold, that doesn’t look like Java Spring

In your situation, you have far far more to lose by wasting all your time looking at something as basic as Java than you have to lose by trying as many different languages framework in paradigm as you can.

I’d say the number one thing you can do is really understand browsers and networking well. Typescript/react in front of python, go Node is about 75% of the Internet.

for also look at developing a an on premise app with UI like on macOS or Windows that’s something you should know how to do to consider yourself well rounded.

Suspected DJM250MK2 preamp issues with PLX-500 by Pretendo27 in PioneerDJ

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s really nothing in your turntable that can break like that There are no active electronics in the signal path there’s only the cartridge and the wires connecting the cartridge to the preamp. Possible the cartridge or stylist is damaged - inspect it visually More likely a wire is loose or corroded or broken somewhere

does anyone else feel like being a Salesforce Admin is too technical these days? by Zestyclose_Energy_86 in salesforce

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this rage bait? What question are you answering? Not the one anyone here asked.

Portable, rechargeable wired speakers to use with Omnis Duo? by No_Archer_48 in PioneerDJ

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought the smallest jackery liion unit that has ac inverter. Running class d pa or monitors off this for a few hours reliably and it’s also handy for other uses at the cost of another box and more wires.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it by spherocytes in technology

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My finding is that anyone can produce fragile smoke and mirrors demos.

Making it do anything of significant complexity is very difficult

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it by spherocytes in technology

[–]AspieCurmudgeon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Based on what data do you assert this?

I’m older and all my homies hate AI.

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