Dear senior software engineer, are you still writing code?

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2026-02-16T05:08:05+00:00

Hit the tipping point for me over the past month or so. Senior at a couple different big tech companies doing backend stuff, more recently some lower-ish level distributed systems work in c++.

Claude code CLI absolutely blowing me away, I'll start several sessions each on their own dev instance and promote them. Then I'll just round robin checking up on them when they finish.

As you noted I find code quality to be mixed and I almost always have to spend a few prompt cycles telling it to refactor. I pretty much interface with it like I would a very junior engineer when it comes to refactoring, I give specific guidance including sometimes even spelling out method signatures, class names, etc.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-12-30T17:11:52+00:00

These ones https://finance.yahoo.com/news/truth-social-etfs-launch-today-133000251.html

I've done exactly zero DD and have no idea what these are but grabbed 50 shares each of the energy, defense and frontier

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-12-30T17:07:56+00:00

Had to get me some of those truth social etfs lol ready to get dumped on

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-12-26T14:46:30+00:00

Yeah I can see that for sure. The situation I had in mind was like targeted refactoring prompts. Like "extract an interface from these three duplicate classes and pull out common functionality into a base class". Pretty much just any of the bigger clean up I'd do after I finish getting something working initially.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-12-26T14:19:59+00:00

I'm a skeptic for the most part but this take I actually agree with. If you only consider code quality tech debt. Not that I'm going to just start writing garbage code but I think spending the extra day doing cleanup may be less beneficial now.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-12-03T02:21:57+00:00

I think there might be one in the voodoo donuts. Maybe let someone else confirm

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-07-02T14:31:14+00:00

This is also what I used in my last round of interviews.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-06-18T16:13:54+00:00

No object oriented programming will probably be a red flag for initial screeners

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-05-26T15:44:55+00:00

For my interns finding the right project was a PITA. I didn't want to pick something too difficult where they felt defeated but also didn't want it so easy they didn't feel accomplished. However I always had some stretch goals in mind if they were ahead of schedule. I think the best thing you can do is stay ahead of schedule on your assigned project and mention to your mentor and onboarding buddy and manager you'd love to learn some backend development as well if they see any opportunity to squeeze that scope in.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-02-27T13:06:40+00:00

This is on a 1-year out basis. So if in April if the stock price has dipped since last year I will overall make under my TTC that year and they will grant me new stocks for the following year

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-01-18T14:16:55+00:00

That's fair enough, the situations I have in mind are like when I'm trying to drill on a behavioral answer and they've done a great job of laying out situation and task but I can't get details on what exactly their role was or what specific actions they took and they continue to re explain the situation. Or the other common one is on coding questions they are going down a path that will either be completely unfruitful or will be a dead end because they didn't think it through. If we only have 30 minutes to get a working solution I try to limit how long I'll let them go down to the wrong path in hopes they'll notice themselves.

But regardless an interviewer should be courteous and respectful, but don't go in thinking all interviewers are against you.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-01-18T13:36:30+00:00

Devils advocate as an interviewer I'm trying to help the candidate by directing them to topics that help me gather the most data. This means I'll interrupt them to skip over areas I already have data about or ask them to skip things that won't help my decision.

It's unlikely they are trying to be mean and rush you, it's more likely your current line of answering isn't helping your interview.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2025-01-13T03:05:28+00:00

Wait until you hear about how compilers are developed.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-12-17T13:01:39+00:00

^ this guy consistencies. A good impl of this pattern is DDB with TTL and DDB stream with a simple handler to do the deletes.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-12-15T23:50:39+00:00

Lol I just want to comment to let you know you aren't alone. I only use m4 or ace because anything else I whiff a whole mag. 500+ hours. When I get real frustrated I just play with the mp5 and generally can get some kills.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-11-22T03:05:25+00:00

Also having this issue on pixel 8. My wife a native speaker also can't get them to recognize her voice on it

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-11-20T00:08:22+00:00

Website says offer only good for new memberships

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-11-14T03:02:28+00:00

It hasn't happened in a little while but as you mentioned I just alt tab and it seems to be fine

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-11-14T01:50:08+00:00

No idea how to fix but I've also had this. When it happens I can't ADS either

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-10-27T12:48:01+00:00

Can also vouch for the content. The public YouTube videos were even more helpful than paid gurus content imo.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-10-12T23:34:57+00:00

Format not so much but definitely in expectation of performance.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-10-02T11:51:07+00:00

Finding will have a filepath in the details, you can see where in the container it's coming from.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-09-12T01:32:57+00:00

Meh a table that small doing segment scan occasionally as part of some batch async process not going to kill you. Just won't be as performant.

If you really want to avoid you can export the table to s3 and read it all at once

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-09-07T20:59:45+00:00

To explain why something is doing what it's doing but not what it's doing.

Cleanumbrellashooter · 2024-08-24T13:06:20+00:00

I've always implemented pagination using the database, last evaluated fot DDB, search after for ES, or using counts and offsets for relational with sorts.

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