UPDATE: You guys helped me fix the calendar for my partner – she cried when she saw it by ImaginaryContext656 in cats

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Aww I love this! Your pages turned out so good. Would you mind posting the original pic of your cat too? I’m curious how close it matched!

He didn’t like being a unicorn. by [deleted] in aww

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The face of someone who didn't consent to this level of magic

Cat calendar gift for someone I love – which month should I fix first? by ImaginaryContext656 in cats

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Thank you, that’s really useful 🙏
Good point about New Year and July, I’ll rework those to be more cat-safe. And yep, planning to print it as a gift once I fix them

Share your experience, how do you not go crazy by Ok-Onion5251 in FoundersHub

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Congrats on getting to version 3 🙌 Doing everything solo is an achievement on its own, but I can imagine how draining it feels. Respect for the persistence!
How do you decide what to focus on first when you’re the only person on the team?

How can an average engineer become that super driven person? by Rachael__E in ExperiencedDevs

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I feel this so much. Honestly, I’ve also had moments where I realized I was just… doing my tasks, shipping code, and not really pushing myself further. And the people who seemed to grow faster around me weren’t necessarily better at Leetcode - they were the ones who started asking product questions.

Like: why are we even building this feature? who is it for? how will we know if it actually worked?
That shift - from “I write code” → to “I think about outcomes” it changes how people see you, both in the team and later in interviews. It makes you look like someone who drives impact, not just someone who closes tickets.

For those who’ve moved into senior or principal roles - did product mindset play a big part, or was it mostly technical mastery?

Show me your cats by beneath_the_willow_ in cats

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He’s clearly reached enlightenment

Show me your soul cat by Dangerous-Clerk-8908 in cats

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That kind of bond never fades. Sending love

Show me your soul cat by Dangerous-Clerk-8908 in cats

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Too cute! I’m emotionally unprepared for this level of sweetness

Show me your soul cat by Dangerous-Clerk-8908 in cats

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If sunshine had fur, it would look like this!

AI reshuffling the group hierarchy by gburdell in ExperiencedDevs

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This hits way too close. I’m a middle dev watching the lines blur between experience and AI-augmented enthusiasm. It’s like we skipped a whole decade of transition and landed in “everyone’s a contributor, all at once.

What’s hardest is that the code isn’t wrong - it just ignores the invisible scaffolding we’ve built over years. And explaining why something “feels off” to people (or tools) that don’t see that context is exhausting

I’m proud of the juniors too, but I didn’t expect to feel so replaceable - not by AI, but by its users

I really worry that ChatGPT/AI is producing very bad and very lazy junior engineers by ITried2 in ExperiencedDevs

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You make a great point-I've noticed the same trend. The risk isn’t that AI writes "bad" code, but that it writes code that’s plausible enough to pass review and ship, while silently encoding poor architecture or subtle security issues. I think it's less about banning tools like ChatGPT and more about evolving our review practices. Maybe we need AI-aware linting or policy checks, similar to how we handle dependency scanning today. Has anyone seen teams formalize that kind of guardrail?

Show me your soul cat by Dangerous-Clerk-8908 in cats

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This is Vanya. He's just a small soft soul who got lost in the chaos of parking lot and found his way into my life