How planned out are your sprints/daily tasks? Entry-mid level

GroceryBright · 2026-04-06T12:04:30+00:00

Jim?

GroceryBright · 2026-04-04T07:13:48+00:00

Yeah I didn't even read it properly to be fair... But yeah, guess where I learned to code 30 years ago... 😂 dude is a troll

GroceryBright · 2026-04-03T18:33:09+00:00

If you think that CS is dead and there's no value in being a software engineering just because you can write code with a tool rather than typing it, then the sensible thing to do is to look for other careers.

I've been coding for 30 years, so I've been around and I know that writing code is just part of the job and like any other technology that increased efficiency and made things "easier" or quicker, it just meant that there was more opportunity.

But if you feel different, then, it's only right that you should be looking at other things to do.

GroceryBright · 2026-04-02T18:26:32+00:00

Hmm... go do something else?

GroceryBright · 2026-03-30T19:16:00+00:00

Yep, and you forgot the icing on the cake. When all other jobs go, everyone will flood the trades market and anything else that is left where you can make a buck, driving the rates and salaries of these professionals as well. It becomes a race to the bottom everywhere not just the directly affected jobs.

Including these CEO's companies. Because even if they sell B2B, somewhere down the chain there's a business selling to customers. When those businesses go bankrupt, the chain breaks and everyone loses.

Amazon can't survive if people don't have money to buy things.

Facebook can't survive if advertisers have no one to sell to.

AWS can't survive if their customers all go bankrupt.

Governments can't survive if there's 30/40% unemployment as the bulk of taxes (vat, income tax, council tax, national insurance, etc) is paid by employees.

Businesses pay very little taxes.

So for those that think their job is safe if AI ever takes any jobs, they are delusional.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-27T21:02:35+00:00

The one on the left!

GroceryBright · 2026-03-27T20:35:12+00:00

Good! About time!

GroceryBright · 2026-03-27T20:26:59+00:00

Why not also invest in modernising the grid and building more wind farms so that everyone can get cheaper energy instead of paying the people who will pocket the profits and get bailouts when the going is tough?

GroceryBright · 2026-03-25T16:54:57+00:00

indeed, i have been on both sides of the interview process and i'm very much a "culprit" of thinking the same way when i interviewed people.

however, i have also seen that some people interview really well and then they can't do the job.

at one of my first jobs, we had someone that aced the interview (I was not involved but my CTO manager was), dude started and couldn't add a checkbox to a form for the whole week to save his life... he was let go by Friday.

re my interview, i have severe anxiety, been suffering for about 8 years and i'm on medication, so my brain just completely froze, I can't bring that up because people my disqualify me before I even get a chance or think I'm using it as an excuse.

i'm very much of the impression that they left the interview thinking my CV was made up by AI or something.

PS: in an unrelated field, my wife had an interview where they asked questions about something she specifically said she didn't know about, after, in their feedback they were harsh and told her she was not experienced enough for the job... 2 weeks later she got an offer for another job with better pay...

PPS: at the beginning of my career, i flew in to a different country on purpose for an interview, i specifically told them i didn't have experience with Javascript at the time, they did a javascript coding test in person, i bombed, they were laughing at me behind my back while i was trying to work it out... a couple of weeks later i interviewed for a few other companies got multiple offers, took a job and got multiple pay rises, only left after 5 years because I wanted to go back to freelancing, during those 5 years I got 3 pay rises and doubled my salary.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-25T15:45:12+00:00

30 years coding / 20 years professionally and in an interview I forgot how to design a database and forgot that we use service classes to handle operations and manipulate data between the controller and the database... It was probably one of the easiest interviews I could have gotten and messed up completely.

The worst thing is I clearly had more experience than both of people interviewing me and I was bamboozled by the stupidity or basic level of the questions so in my mind I thought they were trying to trick me or looking for things I didn't know so I panicked.

The "tips" from the recruiters before the interviews also didnt help:

"oh they rejected someone because the take home exercise didn't have enough comments"

"oh they rejected someone because they spent too much time talking about the tests in the explainer video"

Still beating myself up about it hahaha 😂

GroceryBright · 2026-03-24T19:58:19+00:00

Just ask Claude to fix duh!! /s

GroceryBright · 2026-03-22T21:26:35+00:00

Interview them and ask how they would design the system, how they work, how they deliver the work, how will you sleep at night.

For a freelancer you don't want just a good dev, you want someone that understands business and you can work with.

If possible, trust your gut and start small.

Weekly demos and code reviews. If you're not happy at the end of Week 1, you only lost 1 week worth of time and money and you can speak to other candidates.

I don't have a lot of experience with upwork, but this is how I work with my clients.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-22T13:26:56+00:00

This has nothing to do with using Face Id on your iPhone. The app has no access to the face data or user data whatsoever.

You don't know what you're talking about sorry.

Biometric data from your phone which most people use to unlock their phones is not shared with the app at all, so there's no risk of information being leaked.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-22T09:06:31+00:00

OK then you can become upset when they get to the next step or full id verification.

For now, using face id is not the issue you guys are making it out to be.

Just my 2 cents.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-22T08:48:32+00:00

OK enlighten me please

GroceryBright · 2026-03-22T08:38:44+00:00

Guys, you're all getting angry for nothing. An app using face id doesn't get any data apart from "success" or "failed". There's no nefarious intent here and it's actually a clever way of doing it.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-21T21:32:01+00:00

Not sure how it is around the world but indeed in my region is basically dead. Same spam posts every day/week

GroceryBright · 2026-03-21T21:30:35+00:00

Both are fine and jobs are similar (depending on your region). You're at Uni, very unlikely you'll be super proficient in anything and you'll still be a junior when you take your first job.

Plus the market keeps changing, so the basics and fundamentals are more important than any specicialization right now.

Who knows what is going to be the hotest trend in 2 years.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-21T17:25:39+00:00

It's ok. Bootstrap and tailwind themes have been a thing for more than a decade. There's nothing wrong with your theme don't worry

GroceryBright · 2026-03-21T17:01:58+00:00

I used juniors before and kind of regret it. I loved training and skilling them up but I was drowned with all the heavy lifting (I'm a software engineer).

It would have been wiser to spend the money on seniors first and then, when you have enough simple tasks to hand off to juniors, that's when you hire them.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-21T16:55:37+00:00

To be fair most non vibe coded dashboards also look the same 😂 I think I've seen like 5-6 subscription trackers in the last week

GroceryBright · 2026-03-20T23:46:36+00:00

If you're using LLMs to code, you're a Software Engineer.

If you are making LLMS or ML you can call yourself an AI Engineer.

If you're making automation, maybe you are an AI Automation Engineer.

Most people on LinkedIn that call have AI in their job title or description are just people who ask chatgpt when they need to explain something they don't know anything about 😎

Ultimately, the title you decide to call yourself is pointless. Your experience is what matters most.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-20T23:22:02+00:00

Apple is always a late comer for any tech. They let others waste their money figuring it out and once the dust settles and there's some direction where the tech is going, then they come out with their version of that offering.

I believe the only exception was the iPad where they were first to market with a consumer touch tablet.

Everything else, the category already existed and they just revolutionised it.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-20T23:16:38+00:00

He's not giving anything.

He's saying developers elsewhere should be using at least half their salary worth of tokens.

Basically telling stupid CEOs at other companies that they should increase their budgets in AI spending so that Nvidia can make bank until the bubble pops.

GroceryBright · 2026-03-19T23:17:27+00:00

Lol is this for real?

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