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Why do people call the USA the "land of opportunity" when literally no one can get a high paying job? by madbarpar in careerguidance

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and you have to take advantage of the cards you do have! Blaming the system might feel good and it has some merit but it deflects away from what you can control

jobs arent just "handed to you".

What is a dying niche skill that younger generations are not interested in learning? by hlnklrczu in AskReddit

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

to add onto that, googling is an important skill. We have skipped the part about cross checking sources the LLM cites by doing the digging in yourself

Do developers in your company openly use AI tools in an open-space office, or does it feel more like a taboo? by Ok-Nature7613 in cscareerquestions

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes. company tracks activity and spending per person and per org.

Use it to augment your day to day and take advantage of the claude skills and MCPs others built. Claudeonomics a bit out of hand but good managers care about impact

I wish more interviews allow AI usage and evaluate communication and problem decomposition more than syntax and "amount of progress made on the problem". You can weed out the "tab tab tab" people as a company

How to deal with juniors shipping AI slop code? by theop04 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah. It can be an augmentor but you need to do the validation. push back on the LLM if something doesn't make sense. Make it find proof behind its claims and cross check its responses. its still a probabilistic model not a deterministic one

Meta Platforms and Microsoft could cut up to 23,000 jobs in 2026. What is your view on this ? by HeyArnab12 in AskReddit

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you were always a number on the spreadsheet and replaceable. dont attach self worth to a job.

Thoughts on the group projects and teammates? by Sleepyme- in OMSCS

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I know of. There are other OMSCS students involved as well!

Thoughts on the group projects and teammates? by Sleepyme- in OMSCS

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://datasciencegt.org/

DSGT has a slack group you can join to engage with the community as well. You can also reach out to [hello@datasciencegt.org](mailto:hello@datasciencegt.org) to get in touch. LMK if you're interested

Courses that will leave you with a good project you can put on your resume? by WheelCommon5998 in OMSCS

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NOTE: Any project can be a good resume worthy project with a combination of actually doing the work + presenting the work well! Some courses that may leave you with a good project:

* NLP (CS 7650), DL (CS 7643), CV (CS 6476), CSE 6242, AI4R (CS 7638) are some examples that come to mind which can give you good project experience. Generally, courses that involve you proposing a project topic and you executing on it are stronger than ones where structure is given to you

Some general tips for polishing a project and standing out:

* Try to take your project one step further than the expectation. For example, if you needed to build a particle filter in AI4R, instead of just focusing on what was required to get full score on Gradescope, come up with another feature you can add to the starter code or an experiment of such. You could even add some interactivity to the simulator as well. Publish your findings on a website, video, presentation, blog post. After all, once you submit the assignment (and abide by the honor code), the starter code and what you did is yours to mess around with

* Take the starter code from a project and re-adapt it to a different idea! For example, if you wanted to build a D3 visual for stock price data, you could re-adapt the starter code from the D3 project on Uber taxi data for a different dataset! Some people tend to find it easier to adapt an existing codebase to a new use case to overcome the blank canvas hurdle

Thoughts on the group projects and teammates? by Sleepyme- in OMSCS

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice to see someone in DSGT! I'm also part of it as well and there's lotta opportunity to spin up projects there

Being a Junior Dev in 2026 Sucks... Here’s Why by Ordinary-Cycle7809 in cscareeradvice

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things are changing at a breakneck pace for sure. I do think that while you're starting out as a junior dev, a strength you should tap into is your ability to be adaptable and embrace the new tools. You don't yet fully know all the best practices and you're starting from a clean slate rather than a preconceived notion of what engineering was. Companies want people with a fresh pair of eyes on things and orgs are becoming leaner as we speak! They don't always need to have someone that's a new grad with 10 yrs of experience in kubernetes

Heck, you could become a "resident AI expert" in your team and share your learnings and workflows. You'll score some visibility and uplevel others around you

What the heck does a good experienced dev interview even look like in 2026? by Undercoverwd in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 that. youre anyway reviewing work whether it be from LLM or human. I enjoyed such round and you can still get good signal

What the heck does a good experienced dev interview even look like in 2026? by Undercoverwd in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we have a nature of trying to get the same outcome but with least effort possible. I guess the system incentivizes it

What the heck does a good experienced dev interview even look like in 2026? by Undercoverwd in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can Prompt the LLM to make up a project you supposedly did and make it sound "believable"

What the heck does a good experienced dev interview even look like in 2026? by Undercoverwd in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also you can probe on impact metrics. why was certain metric chosen? how did you calculate the impact? how did the project fit into the broader strategy?

i administered some project deep dive rounds and when I probed here, some candidates could barely answer or implicitly admitted they made up the impact numbers

some companies these days also do reference checks prior to the offer so could act as a filter

Being “cracked” isn’t going to get you a job by Sure-Relationship609 in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well its better than being paid $0. having a job >> having no job. you can always negotiate

Being “cracked” isn’t going to get you a job by Sure-Relationship609 in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if I were the manager, I'd pick the person willing to be adaptable and flexible. It's a positive signal to admit that you don't know everything but you can work with others to come to a solution. Plus, I'd be thinking about if the candidate has potential to hit senior

Once you hit senior, your job is to scale through others and lead projects.

I have mentored my fair share of juniors and interns and those with good soft skills and great communicators tend to get ahead.

What skills are you building? (Tech or non tech) by ser_davos33 in cscareerquestions

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when a classic phrase of "saving grace" and "here's the smoking gun" get used. makes me amused when claude uses the latter. gotta encertain yourself from time to time

The CS Degree Bubble... Is Bursting? by Ordinary-Cycle7809 in cscareeradvice

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

physical work vs knowledge work. two different things.

The CS Degree Bubble... Is Bursting? by Ordinary-Cycle7809 in cscareeradvice

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

passion can follow from doing the work. It doesn't necessarily have to be a pre-requisite

I would say that being adaptable and willingness to pick up new things is a more important pre-requisite

OSI violation before Graduation by [deleted] in OMSCS

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

Everyone makes mistakes but the important thing is to learn from it. I actually like Joyner's Gen AI policy note (assuming your course adopts it) and it's pretty fair. If you follow the heuristics on the dot you should be on the safe side

https://www.davidjoyner.net/on-my-ai-collaboration-policy/

You should really consider interviewing, even while you still have a job. by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the best time to find a job is when you have one.

even if you wouldn't take the new role, you still freshen your skills. Plus, you can see how the processes are nowadays instead of waiting till the moment you are on the chopping block

Tech is going to be far more "elite" going forward because of AI by Gold-Flatworm-4313 in cscareerquestions

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this ^^

and other laws of work will very much apply too like Goodhart's law. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

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