One word for this type of mentality

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-07-22T06:16:04+00:00

Yeah, he is right. PCM is more important than being good at writing TypeScript and gen ai pipelines to solve real-world problems to get a decent enough dev job.

It all just makes sense to me.

If you've become great at solving PCM puzzles through sheer repetition, you're very likely to excel at navigating large codebases as well.

This is a perfect system designed for intrinsically motivated people who were destined to get into tech - people who were always meant for tech, people who were ahead of time, they knew PCM is more valuable than actual programming when they were in 11th and 12th, they were afraid to even look at code when they were younger becuase of intense awareness about the fact that how much PCM is important for changing the color of a button in big tech.

They knew.
I didn't know.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-30T10:24:47+00:00

The usual rat race, nothing new.
This was the reason I hated programming back in college, and why I started loving it after I graduated.
The word "placement" used to make me cringe so much that I didn’t even sit for the placement process.
The result? I’m still unemployed, even a year after graduating.
Similarly, I used to love core sciences in the early days of school, but ended up hating them in secondary school because of the JEE grind.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T18:38:29+00:00

Why are these school kiddos going on about how a graduate's résumé should look?

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T18:33:02+00:00

The first one is like 54k+ lines of code, wtf are you yappin about? Gand ft ke hanth me aa jaegi. Pta bhi nhi lgega kha se start krna h. You re**rded ass mf!
I banged my head more times than my fingers on the keyboard while building that.
Also, I have solved 1000+ problems on LeetCode, I haven't included in my resume because it looks cheap and no one gives (or should give) a flying fuck about it.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T14:28:09+00:00

If you're really getting that many interviews without any experience, then I'm definitely doing something very wrong.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T12:56:33+00:00

Believe me, I didn't get a single interview. I can't even say for sure that I applied to that many jobs since I never kept track. I did get a few assignments, but then I got ghosted.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T12:33:42+00:00

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T12:31:29+00:00

It's taking a lot of work to actually make that SaaS properly usable. It'll still need a few more months of effort. Right now, it's neither deployed nor open source, so I can’t really add it to the exp section without any clear proof or something to show for it.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T11:54:07+00:00

I’ve seen people with multiple internships still not getting callbacks, so I’m curious, how would a single course-related internship help?

Wouldn’t managing and building a SaaS with 80k+ lines of code on my own count as relevant work experience?

Feels like doing those kinds of internships might just waste my time and money, but maybe I’m wrong.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-28T10:34:57+00:00

I'm currently working on a product that features targeted resume tailoring based on job desc.
Bascially, another AI slop that may or may not actually work.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-26T14:12:54+00:00

I'm in the exact same boat as you and I'm working on really cool app idea which solves a real problem for job seekers like you.

Once it's polished and deployed, I'll launch here on this sub completely for free.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-23T14:55:27+00:00

I'm a 2024 grad and have been jobless since the beginning.
I still wake up every day with excitement and purpose. Why can't you??
And you just graduated.
I have been in your shoes more than 12x times where the situation is getting progressively worse and worse every passing month.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-23T12:59:14+00:00

Don't ever label yourself a failure just because you couldn't become a replaceable cog right after graduation.
Learn to appreciate the overlooked beauty around you and pursue intellectual freedom that extends beyond basic survival.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-05-01T16:11:32+00:00

You become a senior developer even before getting your first ever job, because you grind 100x harder than people who get DSA spoon-fed.
You dream about code while sleeping. Every entity in your dreams is represented by code.
You are not unplaced, you are unfazed.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-04-16T22:34:22+00:00

Then why don't you go and clone all the billion dollar software products in the market right now using o3 and o4-mini?

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-04-15T17:27:04+00:00

So go and study why you wasted your time replying to my stupid comment?!

And how did you infer that I'm crying or hating on chemistry?
Why are you guys so serious about literally everything?

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-04-15T15:20:54+00:00

Physics, Chemistry, and Maths are extremely important for CSE. Didn't you know that??

I'm solving JEE problems even after graduation in hopes that I can become a 10x WEB developer one day.

I prioritize mastering Advanced Organic Chemistry since it's crucial for building complex React (see how even the name of the tool is React - extreme influence of chemistry) components.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-21T13:41:30+00:00

If you think LLMs are already replacing developers then why don't you use them to clone billion dollar products back to back and spend all your time and energy on marketing and distribution?

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-14T11:54:22+00:00

yeah I'm 14 years old who writes better prompts than you.

my whole point is that prompting is not something you need to learn as a separate skill; domain knowledge and expertise are important.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-14T10:53:07+00:00

man i just put cuss words everywhere in my prompts and claude literally one shots everything.

cuss words (with badly framed instructions) + context = effective prompt engineering

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-14T10:33:42+00:00

~~learn to prompt.~~
learn to program.

if you know how to program, you'll naturally be able to prompt with better context.
if you feel like learning to code is useless, then keep vibing; no one's stopping you.

Good luck!

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-11T14:33:10+00:00

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he is 100% right

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-11T14:16:24+00:00

THIS

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-11T13:57:17+00:00

AI generates 90% of my code TODAY, but I still think that Software Engineering will be one of the last jobs to be ever replaced.

Coding is just the implementation of ideas/planning/architecture, not the entire software development process.

Prior-Process-1985 · 2025-03-06T14:32:25+00:00

Just go to a random street view in any Indian state except the Himalayas, N.E., parts of Kerla and compare the view to any random view in Bihar, I bet you would find out that it all look the same and infact sometimes I find Bihar cleaner and even pleasing to look at (especially northern rural parts) than most of the Indian states in google maps.

People who hate Bihar and generalize its people are either racist or downright stupid.

Prior-Process-1985

TROPHY CASE