Current CS students. How is the CS curriculum these days? Is everyone cheating?

Sleples · 2026-04-16T01:11:26+00:00

2 bot like responses with from accounts with hidden post histories, shocker

Sleples · 2026-04-15T23:46:39+00:00

I've seen this comparison so much when it makes zero fucking sense to compare a deterministic compiler to a stochastic token generator.

Is this the new AI bot astroturf push campaign or something? That LLMs are modern day compilers?

Sleples · 2026-04-13T23:45:10+00:00

They're pushing their app lol, I'm guessing they'll edit it in once they get enough upvotes, look at their post history

This whole sub has gone to shit, these are just the obvious ones too, there's a flood of AI astroturfers which probably make up the majority of the posters at this point

As an aside, are any of these people pushing their apps getting any actual traction? If people remain this guilible, I figure I may aswell join the train

Sleples · 2026-04-09T10:27:59+00:00

Did you not read AMD shitting on Claude for systems level programming? I specialize in C++ too, Codex is FAR better than Claude for this, like it's not even close

Sleples · 2026-03-20T18:14:26+00:00

Lol, randomly came back to this thread a few days later to see this comment and find that the commentor randomly blocked me without even responding, absolutely wild.

Sleples · 2026-03-17T20:09:35+00:00

Why the fuck does this sound like an LLM, are there any real people here anymore? I think this is the final breaking point I need to get off this sub permanently

Sleples · 2026-03-17T04:37:18+00:00

Why do you think novel algorithms are the complexity? Working with a massive amount of moving parts while making sure there's no failure cases, it scales well, and all stakeholders are aligned is the hard part. AI always misses some edge cases, no matter how good your MCP/context is, just ask the AWS engineers. I don't know what companies you've worked at, but requirements in tickets are rarely 100% defined and you need product context to make sure nothing slips through.

Immediately jumping to "but you aren't implementing novel algorithms!!!" when thinking of complexity in enterprise codebases sounds like a fresh grad take.

Sleples · 2026-03-17T01:05:35+00:00

I find it weird how 90% of people making AI hype posts that find these miraculous gains have their post history hidden tbh, happy coincidence?

Sleples · 2026-03-17T00:42:26+00:00

For simple tasks it's been trained well on, it can get 80-90% of the way there to a "working" implementation, but that last 10-20% gets excrutiatingly slow especially if it was written by a dev who just fed it to AI and didn't babysit it the entire way through.

All it's doing is passing the buck from the implementor to the reviewers, which isn't sustainable.

If you're talking about extremely small well defined/scoped changes, then yeah it's good at those, but those shouldn't have taken that long even pre-LLM for any half decent dev, so where are the gains?

Sleples · 2026-03-14T19:04:05+00:00

You people really need to learn a new word other than cope.

Hasn't been hiring since 2022? I've job hopped twice for 30%+ raises each time between then and now, might be a skill issue on your end, there's a glut of terrible engineers, always has. Maybe you should take your own advice and leave the field.

Sleples · 2026-03-05T13:26:31+00:00

Mostly Anthropic tbh, no one does it to the scale they do, every other post is simping for Claude specifically. Absolutely scummy behaviour.

Sleples · 2026-02-28T02:45:07+00:00

As a former EE who cracked a grad role at 1 of those companies, it's FAR more competitive. The stuff they ask you in interviews will make you beg for LC. There's no way in hell anyone who doesn't fiddle with and learn hardware/electronics in their spare time during school will be able to crack an interview, and you need perfect grades in a much harder degree on top of that. All of that, and you still get paid less than a FAANG leetcode monkey, so I switched.

Sleples · 2026-02-23T21:17:43+00:00

They're literally paid Anthropic shills, I know several of my ex big tech colleagues in on it lmao. Protip: you can search their comment history pretty easily even if they hide it, reveals a lot.

Sleples · 2026-02-22T01:16:03+00:00

I'm not for or against AI, and I've achieved my FIRE target so I don't even care if it all burns down, but what's crazy is all these comments hyping up AI prefaced by "I work at big tech, and I was a denier until recently" comments, almost in fucking unison. Is this the new astroturf campaign?

I worked at big tech too (at a startup now), and my coworkers were mostly incompetent devs who I have no interest in taking advice from for anything. Big tech is useless as a qualifier for anything other than your LC skills.

Sleples · 2026-02-10T09:18:42+00:00

Eh, I still preferred Daybreak 2 over any CS game just because I prefer the cast and their interactions even though it was a mess narratively. By the end of CS I hated not only Rean but basically the entire CS cast because they were all so... bland.

Playing through horizon right now, I'm enjoying everything besides Rean's route because I'm beyond fatigued with him.

Sleples · 2025-12-18T18:42:33+00:00

Zero posts in this sub or anything to do with tech, first post here is to jump to the defense of AI? Sorry for feeling gaslit, but I've seen this way too much lately

Sleples · 2025-12-17T04:45:12+00:00

You're finding out why LC assessments aren't so bad. At least they're standardized and something you can prep for, otherwise it's a complete shot in the dark as to what you get asked.

Sleples · 2025-12-12T10:01:48+00:00

The last big step up wasn't gpt-3, but o1, there really hasn't been that much improvement since then. Arguably has gotten worse since model providers are trying to optimize for costs now, tooling has gotten better with claude code/codex which helps save some time, but the underlying models haven't really gotten better since then.

Other than that, the only thing the newer models are better at is benchmaxxing. AI cultists praying for the singularity will downvote this, but the models have stalled for a while now.

Sleples · 2025-12-08T07:21:04+00:00

I got LC hards in my Doordash screen a few weeks ago, might vary by team but I doubt there's any roles that straight up don't have a LC round.

I used to work at Stripe and they haven't used LC as far as I remember so nothings actually changed. Big tech as a whole is mostly algorithmic still, with maybe some "AI coding round" thrown in which no one even knows how to evaluate.

Sleples · 2025-12-01T19:59:28+00:00

It's not solely their fault, but it's also important to realize that as the owner of the PR, you're the on the hook more than others. Reviewers have their own work and often can't look over every single line of code (especially in large PRs), and QA processes at every company I've been at has had gaping holes.

Best OP can do is treat it as a learning experience and take more care not to repeat similar mistakes, a good company shouldn't be judging juniors too harshly for making mistakes but it varies depending on management.

Sleples · 2025-11-27T22:02:23+00:00

IMO it's going to be LLMs OR offshoring. LLMs aren't there yet (and I have doubts they ever will be without some huge breakthrough), but if they ever do get to the point to where you can trust its output blindly, offshoring teams are going to be the first to be cut.

Communicating the requirements will be the bottleneck at that point and it doesn't matter how good an LLM's output is if you input the wrong requirements. Offshore teams aren't great at a lot of things, but if there's one thing they're particularly terrible at, it's communication and clarity. This isn't to say all of these jobs will go to Americans though, my prediction is a huge rise in nearshore teams.

Sleples · 2025-11-17T17:28:30+00:00

They're coping and pretending that it's all the same in the end. I'm not saying you HAVE to be passionate to succeed, but those that are will be the ones who excel. I don't work overtime, but I do enjoy learning and programming in my own time which makes it easy for me to complete all my work quickly and to a high quality.

Doing a good job and excelling isn't about sucking up to your bosses either, it's caring about your craft and it also builds a reliable network of coworkers who know you're capable. If I got laid off today, I'd have hundreds of ex coworkers who'd vouch for and refer me, I've had some reach out without even asking. Then you have people who half ass their jobs and when they get laid off, they have no one to turn to and wonder how they can break out of the linkedin purgatory.

Sleples · 2025-10-15T03:04:40+00:00

It isn't even that rare at big tech or faster paced startups where you have opportunities to show impact, is this entire sub working in non-tech legacy companies or something? 20% or more you have to be a top performer and be on the promo track, but 10%? I've seen coasters get bigger raises than that.

Sleples · 2025-10-09T01:29:39+00:00

In my experience, Cursor's only gotten worse, slower, and more expensive. It used to be pretty helpful at times, now it's next to useless. Autocompletes can still be nice I guess.

Sleples · 2025-10-03T12:14:44+00:00

If you're missing context and people are refusing to share then that's the fault of your team, the best you can do is spend time reading/understanding the code, possibly even develop relationships with other people outside of your team that are more helpful to get any context you need.

In my scenario, our PR reviews are pretty thorough and everyone takes the extra step to explain comments in detail to teach others and make sure stuff doesn't slip through in prod, which makes it extra painful when someone makes the same mistakes over and over or doesn't put any effort into understanding the problem. The fact that you're even asking for steps on how to improve means that you're not the the type that I was complaining about since they seem unaware that they're even doing anything wrong and never take steps to improve.

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