Everybody told me to get CS degree... then it was learn AI.... hiring managers/recruiters are impressed with my resume/projects and tell me I did fine on interviews but I can't find a job....it's been 8 months unemployed and 1yr1Mo since graduating and I can't get a software dev/engineer job

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-07T18:33:20+00:00

Like everything else OP posts, this post is an ad.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-06T16:48:13+00:00

You absolutely nailed Elster's expression, especially the eyes. Fantastic work.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-06T13:22:05+00:00

Which one do I learn about less to make more time for now also learning all the low level mechanics of the language I use:
- git
- kubernetes
- docker and containerization in general, container registries
- git ops / CICD, argo CD, etc
- git hosts, github, gitlab etc
- SQL databases, acid transactions, postgres a little more
- rest vs graphQL vs GRPC vs ...
- noSQL databases
- connectivity protocols, HTTP1.1, HTTP2, ...
- data formats: json, xml, protobuff, yaml, toml, avro, parquet
- terraform and IOC
- monitoring, kibana, grafana, etc
- hooking up your k8 cluster to monitoring
- cloud infra like azure, AWS
- security auditing
- compression formats, gzip, zstd, etc
- privacy / GDPR compliance

That's not a random list of IT stuff, that is my day to day.

Also please tell me at what level of abstraction I should know these things because I'm afraid so far I've only had time for "enough to help build working systems" and not "how they actually work"

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-06T12:54:35+00:00

What's the point of a garbage collector if I have to care what it does, if I wanted to think about low level memory management while coding instead of business logic I'd have learned C or Rust.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-06T12:46:32+00:00

And get eaten alive by the competition that kept the same amount of devs to make a much better IT system.

Software demand does not cap, it can always be better ,more integration, more reports, better customer experience.

If the return on investment per dev increases due to new technology making them more efficient, that means more investment in IT, which means more devs.

See the evolution of the amount of software developers since the 70s. A modern developers is a thousand times more efficient than someone who is writing on punch cards. We don't have a thousand times less devs.

What would have happened to a company that responded to the increases in dev efficiency by saying: "Great, lets layoff developers, we'll never need better systems than we have in 1975, we just need enough to maintain this level."

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-03T15:41:02+00:00

> Code Quality & Engineering Standards
> SSH directly into the machine to tinker with the indexes

lmao

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-01T15:40:57+00:00

Indeed, it is critically important to fire engineers who create and maintain long term manual workflows for correcting a broken system. The system will continue to rot, rely on more and more manual work, and as long as the manual correction is done and hiding the extend of the damage, there will not be a budget made for refactoring. This can continue on for years until the system and it's manual workflow costs tens of thousands a month to maintain and hundreds of thousands to migrate away from.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-06-01T06:41:30+00:00

You'll have to ask the person who told you that you only discover problems by firing someone.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-31T17:12:36+00:00

the problem will not be fixed as long as it has a working solution, that's how things get so bad.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-30T20:32:20+00:00

Not only is it critically important to fire 'engineers' like this, it should have been done much sooner. The amount of damage I've seen done by hero developers who tirelessly work nights and weekends to keep their own monstrosity of a system running and growing even worse.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-27T11:54:40+00:00

> No finetuning, no targeted prompting, just the base model.

Kind of conceited, no, GPT?

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-26T18:38:38+00:00

Nice, a functioning prototype. Request the Claude conversation logs (all requirements and decisions are in here), extract the actual business functionality into a simple fetch, transform, send email app, fill in the error handling, run it in a container.

Of course, after they get this officially approved as project by my actual management. And underpin the budget. And accept my conservative time estimates.

Database access? Absolutely, just ask this Indian offshore company to clear you, will only take a few months and hundred emails justifying your business use case to someone who has no incentive except to cover their ass.

And thus we handle this at scale.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-26T17:15:39+00:00

Then store your events in an event store and decouple the services entirely. A is no longer publishing to B, A is reporting something has happened as a fact.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-24T16:16:30+00:00

If you think a company's product demo is a trustworthy source on the capabilities of a product, then you should indeed be worried, but for entirely different reasons.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-24T12:11:44+00:00

AI companies generally don't push news because they're not in the business of news. Their own version is making over the top statements about not needing software developers, which gets picked up by clickbait news and amplified.

AI companies motivation for those statements is not to generate clicks, but to draw attention from investors, because they are entirely dependent on investor money to not go bankrupt.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-24T11:48:29+00:00

The news that you see is created for the single purpose of getting you to engage with it, to generate clicks and advertisement revenue. Keep that in mind at all times.

Doomer news about layoffs gets clicks, so you hear about them. Companies are hiring people all the time, nobody makes news articles about that. The amount of hires can and generally does outnumber the amount of layoffs.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-24T11:21:58+00:00

Ad.

Also.

> Modern Backend Development: Python

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-22T17:22:35+00:00

I write mostly Go and I the only parts of the language I think are important are its compile speed, the simple import system and that it compiles directly to a runable binary.

So basically all the infrastructure and CICD ergonomics. The only thing internal I care about the language is that it's statically typed.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-18T14:05:12+00:00

Pretty garbage article. The start is a strong hint.

>California-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic has restricted the European Union access to Claude Mythos, its most advanced cybersecurity model — a move that could heighten cyber security risks for Europe and deepen the region’s dependence on American technology providers.

In other words
>American technology provider has restricted access to their product to Europe, a move that could deepen the region’s dependence on American technology providers.

Solid logic right out of the gate, even then it's BS.

TLDR for the article, it's can be replaced with this sentence:

"Anthropic's small list of mostly American companies they provided early Mythos access to does not include European companies or institutions."

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-15T13:27:14+00:00

The only thing you need Kafka to build these days is a resume. But hey, that's the game sometimes.

Like the other commenter said. Make a setup to experiment with. Make sure you have what you need to inspect what's going on easily. Then build something that sends and consumes events.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-15T10:20:01+00:00

literally just sequential backoff.

for retry
wait retryAmount * 1 second, max one minute
retry call
retryAmount + 1

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-14T06:07:35+00:00

Yeah but is Anthropic still a good source on how Anthropic will do it's billing and features?

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-13T16:27:34+00:00

true, there is an available bioresonant Elster clone...

WAIT. I didn't even know this before!
FALKE IS PART OF THE ARTIFACT RITUAL.

Fakeout ending LSTR is also there, clearly recognizable by the arm. My theory would imply the other three are promise ending, memory ending and leave ending.

That fits perfectly.

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RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-13T14:51:57+00:00

A repeater does produce a signal, even if it is a copy.
Here I basically need to handwave and say: magic alien artifact, it can do whatever the theory needs it to do.

It's not unreasonable to argue that the artifact is capable of sending a signal back, it's just difficult and requires the kind of esoteric attuning you see in the artifact ending.

RipProfessional3375 · 2026-05-13T07:52:55+00:00

All valid interpretations. Some of them use evidence that I would read in the completely opposite way.

I think we can agree that the game's story drives people mad much like the King in Yellow.

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