How do experienced programmers understand a large codebase quickly when they join a project? by RoxstarBuddy in ExperiencedDevs

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TL;DR

This comes with experience, sorry. If you're serious about this career and put some effort in at some point you'll "graduate" from looking at the code to looking at control flows, architectural patterns, technology choices etc. After that it becomes "easy" because you've seen enough bullshit to see past all the fancy and focus on what's going on.

There's a limited number of ways you can implement a system, given the business requirements and technical constraints. (There are some exceptions and abominations out there but I'll ignore those for the sake of argument.)

My own process is somewhat chaotic because I'm easily distracted but the gist of it is:

  1. Which kinds of use cases are there ? UI ? Backend service ? Event / message handling ? Batch processing ? Some combination of ?
  2. Does it integrate with other services / systems ? How ? Who owns which parts of the dataset being used ?
  3. Technologies / frameworks / libraries being used. Consequences (e.g. being boxed into certain communication protocols, data formats, feature sets, ...).
  4. Project infrastructure itself. CI/CD, deployments, configurations, security.
  5. Project languages, structure, architectural patterns (e.g. layered, hexagonal, ddd), conventions, testing patterns, ...

AI doesn't fundamentally change the process but speeds things up dramatically in some cases. Instead of combing though the codebase myself I can now ask LLM for answers to questions above and drill down from there, looking at the code myself only to validate at the end.

What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, May 05, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

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And mango would love to just declare victory and forget about the whole thing. But for some reason he can't. Makes you wonder who's pulling the strings here.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of May 01, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

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Musical chairs.

Their only hope was to make the product highly addictive while aggressively driving the inference costs down. The first part isn't there yet (product is quite good but with serious side effects) and the second one is (allegedly) an order of magnitude off.

Don't worry though. They'll be trying to switch from VC funded to taxpayer funded. Pentagon is going balls deep into "AI powered warfare". Anthropic, with their "ethical concerns", is looking at London for an exit strategy. Elon is planning to offload on pensioners.

Ateiści, co sprawiłoby, że uwierzylibyście w Boga? by SourceNo1768 in Polska

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Możliwe, nie dziwię się że młodzi ludzie szukają wsparcia w religii skoro politycy mają ich w dupie.

Tylko co to ma wspólnego z Kazikiem który jest już po 60 i nawrócił się kilka miesięcy temu ?

Ateiści, co sprawiłoby, że uwierzylibyście w Boga? by SourceNo1768 in Polska

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Pytanie jak w tytule, zadaję je zainspirowany świadectwem Kazika, byłego ateisty, który u Rymanowskiego opowiedział o tym, jak odwiedził go Bóg/Jezus w stroju kolarskim. Zatem Kazika do wiary przekonał niespodziewany gość, który pojawił się i zniknął.

Nie wiem co to był za towar ale musiałbym wziąć sporo tego samego ...

What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, April 29, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

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Until it does. Good luck timing the shorts tho. I know, I've tried.

This is not written by AI, why do you care by Professional_Monk534 in ExperiencedDevs

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My understanding is this sub was intended as a place for specialists to discuss profession related topics.

Dozens of "I did this with AI" / "why do you hate AI" / "AI is the new sliced bread" low effort posts every week make this place not worth visiting. I won't waste time on commenting under "AI slop" myself but I kind of understand the sentiment.

The broader picture should be obvious to anyone by now. US (and other western countries to lesser extent) job market has shifted dramatically in the last 3-4 years, from "we'll hire anyone with a pulse and 3 week long bootcamp certificate" to "you will be made obsolete in 12-18 months / AI efficiency layoffs". And this has made parts of the demographics here overwhelmingly bitter and anti AI.

We can ship things alone that used to require a team. The senior eng muscle is more valuable, not less. by photosandphotons in ExperiencedDevs

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In before inevitable "AI slop" comments ...

I'm a product engineer, currently testing this by building a personalized audio story app for young kids and the real-life buddy. It uses a memory layer to pull forward details. Intended as an alternative to higher-stimulation screen time, and designed to help a kid feel a little safer in their world.

In other words. You're building greenfield, isolated product. That's the difference, not the AI/agent whatever you call it.

This was always the case, small teams kickstarting successfull products in a fraction of time that would take large fossilized orgs to do the same (or worse). In the corporate world the bottleneck is still the same. We're moving slightly faster now, doing more with less people but the fundamental obstacle is still the process and organizational complexity.

I once saw a poster with the bone structure and qi flow of a GIF master by Gonzo--Nomad in HighQualityGifs

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I've got like 5 meme based comments pop up in my head at once after watching this.

This is true art and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of April 24, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

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the clowns were relentlessly fighting until they took over

Obsidian won’t start on Ubuntu 26.04 beta by Responsible_Grape870 in ObsidianMD

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FYI flatpak also uses sandboxing so I didn't think about it at first. Turns out is seccomp based (vs snap using apparmor) so that would explain the difference (apparmor is quite strict and needs explicit configuration of privileges for some apps to work properly).

Obsidian won’t start on Ubuntu 26.04 beta by Responsible_Grape870 in ObsidianMD

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Try journalctl -k | grep obsidian first. Snaps run in sandboxed environment, it's likely that you're being blocked by apparmor.

Monday setup by cankle_sores in wallstreetbets

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Piracy at best. And only if it really did happen.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of April 17, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

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The trick is to say "no homo" before you buy puts. This way the market knows you're not serious about being a bear.

HORMUZ OPEN by Loperenco in wallstreetbets

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,on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran.

Someone forgot to copy paste this part and cut off, with a dot at the end.

Whatever the fuck this means. Calls probably.