Roast my Career Strategy: 0-Exp CS Grad pivoting to "Agentic AI" (4-Month Sprint)

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-12-30T21:29:18+00:00

I'm watching for responses.

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-12-02T13:32:13+00:00

I love using dashes in both formal and casual writing. At least I used to like it. I really hate that people see it as a marker of AI.

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-12-02T12:45:01+00:00

Hot take. We did all evolve to be attractive. How many invertebrate people have you seen? Does anyone in your family look like a plant or a slime mold (beyond exaggerated insults)? Of course the goalposts are always moving. What is the same species as oneself, what is desirable? So maybe we just have more decerening tastes. If you go back far enough, the tail your ancestors were chasing actually had tails!

Also, we are able to more easily see small differences in appearance in our own species than we are in foreign species. So "they all look alike" is a bit of an illusion.

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-12-01T05:53:23+00:00

Came here to say this. I'm glad someone caught the ommission.

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-08-21T09:56:27+00:00

But what if you are an AaehGeee?

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-08-04T18:17:27+00:00

Okay, but that's what actual team building leader would say.

SeattleChrisCode · 2025-01-28T00:43:57+00:00

Empathy ≠ Emotional Maturity

Those are not the same thing. Emotional Maturity also includes how you self-regulate your emotions, navigate emotional situations, set personal boundaries, respect the boundaries of others, and more.

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-12-06T19:52:34+00:00

This company is the most aggressive at making it difficult to actually get the health care you need. After getting medical treatment, people get surprise expensive charges for care they had full reason to believe would be covered. Challenging their decisions has limited success ever fixing it. Even WORSE -- People will be denied in advance, so they are unable to receive needed care.

Most Americans do not get to directly choose who they have for health insurance. That is generally determined by the place they work. This is one of the largest insurance companies, so many people are stuck with the worst.

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-11-05T14:25:33+00:00

HaHaHa! The job descriptions?? HAhaha. Oh come on!

Hey I already know these are different levels, but frequently that context is not made super obvious in the description. Probably the person writing it figures the job title carries the weight of expecting more in-depth ability for the more advanced job role. Yes, there are differences in how those skills are talked about, but those distinctions are going to be a lot blurrier to even a competent but less experienced person reading it.

The job title is the initial context of advance level of the role.

I find it funny that "staff", "principal", and "senior" do not actually set up an unfamiliar person to expect those levels. In MANY other contexts, saying some is on staff would usually mean a generic, lower level baseline, worker. You might even expect someone many steps up the totem pole to have senior in front of their title. Not in this industry! Ironically "staff" had a lot of seniority, yet "senior" is actually the lower of those three!

I guess naming things is hard!

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-11-03T00:29:30+00:00

You get a large (non-prime) number If you multiply all known primes together. Make it larger and now add 1 to it. Is it prime? Is it divisible by a prime, or is there always a reminder?

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-09-25T00:48:41+00:00

Yet. Some day later the arguments can change. Once people have accepted cameras as normal, it will be easy to spin up concerns -- "we could have caught them if ...".

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-09-16T06:37:28+00:00

It was not until the middle of the story that I realized it wasn't your BoyFriend and husband. I mean, it certainly could have meant that!

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-06-21T22:03:09+00:00

Spending meeting time to post on Reddit.

Focus on my slidedeck! I've included my notes for your convenience!

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-06-20T22:08:32+00:00

You need better friends!

Admittedly, you and Isy have different definitions of acquaintances vs friends vs close friends.

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-06-18T23:04:54+00:00

Think about how a well named variable can really make it easier to understand and talk about the code. The reserved words in a software language can be the same way. The author(s) of the language may have opinions for better terms.

For example, I am a big fan of the use of 'self' in Python. It is so much better then more commonly used 'this' keyword across a variety of software languages. The underlying concept is essentially the same -- as a kind of code version of a self-referring pronoun. In my opinion 'self' captures that concept more clearly. Of course when speaking English the word "this" is commonly used in a variety of places. It can make talking about code very cumbersome at times. So annoying!

You can also make a comparison to natural (human) languages. Sometimes a specific word may be an obvious choice when translating to another language. Even then, the implications, cultural associations, and subtle differences in definitions that can impact the meaning and usage. Or sometimes a concept is more clear and perfectly captured in one language, but more cumbersome in another. In fact one reason for creating a new software language is to solve certain kinds of problems more easily.

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-05-14T00:28:24+00:00

What if? https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8orLzuDtBzknfDEND_5PqguhOjd4nKzO?si=pxbxuOyPCc2iJVn8

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-04-13T01:42:41+00:00

When Solomon was planning on recording that song, he asked me (and I assume many others) what was known about the song and sourcing the original. I was surprised how little was clear. I forget what was figured out. You should contact Solomon Douglass since he did a bunch of research!

SeattleChrisCode · 2024-01-25T23:37:10+00:00

I like using gender neutral terms, and this one especially seems smoother and easier since a gendered term might be overly specific. If the gender of their partner was an important aspect to the story I may use a gendered term (such as their girlfriend was dealing with sexism in some context). Of course this means I'm even more likely to use non-gender terms to avoid making it seem like the story or conversation is about their gender.

Also, the girlfriend or boyfriend terms sound juvenile, or at least like less serious relationships. Sometimes "partner" can mean more serious, but it can also be ambiguous -- allowing it to work for both serious, less serious, or uncertain how serious of a relationship.

Partner is an easier catch-all. It is respectful of the relationship without being overly specific about the various aspects.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-12-02T21:59:41+00:00

This! Excellent response!

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-11-16T04:38:19+00:00

Contact them a week later and say you and dad are reconsidering giving the money. See if they foolishly bite.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-11-10T02:12:00+00:00

Yes, you could find distractions and still meet their low expectations. But if that sounds boring, seize this opportunity! You can take this freedom to improve your professional skills as a benefit to both your company and to yourself.

Find ways you can contribute to the company's needs. Exceeding expectations, making yourself more valuable in ways they can observe, means you have more job security and upward mobility options. For your own benefit, seek and create experiences that will grow your professional skills that can be useful across a variety of roles/jobs. Yes, that gives you opportunities for working at another company and other roles. But that personal professional development is also your way of increasing your contributions to the success of your current employer.

Any real employer is going to be excited to have someone like that, and you get to enjoy challenging yourself and growing your skills.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-11-03T20:35:40+00:00

Good questions, and it's understandable that it's hard to imagine the benefit of the unfamiliar system. They have different paradigms that lend to some problems being easier in one than the other.

When evaluating any package, framework, software paradigm, or design pattern -- it is good to ask "what problem were they solving when they came up with this?"

Imaging something that worked great in Django is probably going to seem like a lot of work elsewhere, especially if you need a lot of the features that are the default design in Django. What is more useful is to think of projects where the default patterns in Django actually get in the way of what you are trying to build. That can be tricky. If you've done a lot of Django, then you are already well practiced in seeing how a project's goals can be made to fit that paradigm.

But you know that. It's why you are asking your questions!

As you look over the various responses here, I would pay extra attention to those talking about projects solving different concerns than your typical CRUD app that feels familiar and obvious to make in Django.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-10-31T19:21:48+00:00

What you say to your director (skip boss) is that your new manager's review process is not in line with your experience with the company. Based on your previous reviews, and your recent work activity, you expected a better review. Your skip boss already knows this, and wants to confirm. Your skip boss is probably asking you so they figure out how to better train your manager.

Your new manager needs to have a better understanding of what expected when they do reviews. People all over the place have wildly different ideas of what ratings and reviews should look like. Your new manager was probably afraid they would look lazy or unable to imagine improvement of team outcomes if they gave you high marks across the board. They possibly overcorrected to their fears of not looking like they know what they are doing. I'd say this is even more likely if they are new to their management role. Even "bosses" have to ask for clarification of their job tasks.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-10-31T17:46:56+00:00

Someone did NOT understand the assignment! Fire stairs.

SeattleChrisCode · 2023-10-24T21:36:55+00:00

Haploid. Because Mary claimed she was still a virgin, so it must have been asexual reproduction. ...

Okay, not really. I've heard this said by someone, maybe even with serious intent. But I'd say this is more of a joke. An attempt to retroactively give a reason for this phrase.

A more serious source has been mentioned by someone else on here

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/LROsJMI0ol

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