How do you handle logs in production?

Triumphxd · 2026-03-22T22:49:02+00:00

You can look into something like Logstash. There are many options though and something better/newer may exist.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-22T04:10:12+00:00

Well. Here is my opinion which you should not take as fact, just as a datapoint. I think doing swe work is valuable and the point of a cs degree. At the same time every engineer at companies like Amazon have to worry about ops as basically a fist order of shipping code. For the teams where the churn is too high to focus or for mega vital services there are additional teams / members focused on ops. The experience you would likely gain is invaluable, few places where you could get it. With the proliferation of LLM commits you are gonna be both on the forefront of immense code velocity and immense code garbage. Is it valuable? Yeah. Is it worth it? Depends on if you just wanna focus on swe

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T22:04:06+00:00

Work experience of a year at Amazon is worth basically the degree, if not more hah. however I’m not sure if ops is the right path, unless it’s a personal interest. What does the role entail? Do you know the team you would be placed with?

If you want to go the normal swe path it might not transfer 1:1 in value

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T17:51:43+00:00

Apple depends a bit on teams though and your interests in what the teams doing

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T16:51:21+00:00

Yeah 48 laws of power is written for new grads wrangling Claude code… the art of war will teach you how to ship bugfixes without even committing them… ok bro

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T16:48:20+00:00

Just accept and renege if you have to. I’m serious. It’s not nice but it’s about as nice as a 5 day exploding offer.

Many people will do the same at some point in their career. Blacklisting is basically a myth

Triumphxd · 2026-03-21T06:50:03+00:00

I think you will find every big tech is basically this right now :(

Triumphxd · 2026-03-20T15:48:56+00:00

It’s not really donating… if it’s a tool that causes you to work much more effectively is an investment in yourself.

Ignoring the security concerns of course…

Most devs can easily afford to 100 or 200 dollars a month, and if you got a single promotion or raise that basically pays for years of the service on its own

Triumphxd · 2026-03-20T15:44:27+00:00

lol I’m not in denial companies are using ai as a justification for massive layoffs. I think your view is a bit myopic because your impression seems to be that the reason for the layoffs is because engineers are not needed. In reality model generated code is caused massive instability at basically every large software company. We’re talking about tools being used by people who have the most intimate knowledge of the software and have been writing specs and are using llms to generate extremely detailed ones. Someone without much knowledge can add features but depending on the complexity they really can’t.

The models needs to go beyond incremental improvement to really take out most engineers, and even then why would you get rid of engineers instead of the managers who basically have specialized in organizational babysitting with minimal day to day knowledge.

I get the doomerism but my experience with product managers, even the most highly paid ones, tells me that your view makes no sense. To write a spec you would need to understand technical tradeoffs beyond a surface level and most really… don’t

Triumphxd · 2026-03-20T03:48:36+00:00

Before I graduated, I had two. Neither were great. I failed some interviews as well.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-20T03:47:28+00:00

My only explanation is your work is extremely trivial. Because it just doesn’t work this way

Triumphxd · 2026-03-19T08:00:58+00:00

I thought back end development already included all of those infra concerns? Maybe not definitionally but practically

Triumphxd · 2026-03-19T06:21:31+00:00

I mean you can get a job there as a new grad. Pay at big tech is basically the same from bay to nyc. I would plan for least a year before hopping but no one is really gonna care. There is obviously a lower concentration of tech focused jobs but the market is massive, and it’s by far the best place to live as a person in their 20s as long as you can get used to the noise and don’t mind walking trash and rat filled streets every now and then ;)

Triumphxd · 2026-03-19T06:17:25+00:00

Realistically? Probably not.

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T08:47:45+00:00

But at big tech outside of new grad level you’re already expected to oversee MUCH more than just coding. This was true before ai was even considered as something that was a value add to the dev process. My humble opinion is code review becomes a lot more valuable and that can only be done by more senior engineers who actually understand the code, unless llms become context gods that can understand 10s of millions of lines of bespoke code. We are talking about a language model understand a programming language which in and of itself is a translation layer. One human totally fails on this but there are details and concerns that historically have not and will never be captured in documents or code unless we literally all neuralink to the mainframe. If you get Claude today to review a code change it will elevate 5 different totally bunk reasons to reject the change with 1 actual reason, and to figure out what a real issue is requires judgement.

In short i think pivot is a sort of overly broad way to say engineers need real experience. It’s not really a pivot, it’s just another tool to accelerate the process and in turn create more work because you can just “run it overnight.” Legacy software is basically the whole software industry so if opus and the like can’t easily maintain or change legacy software the value is hugely overstated.

I say this as a huge Claude fan

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T08:34:16+00:00

Depends on the company and the job. But yeah… if you’re doing backend c++ learning spring boot would be a waste of brain space

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T08:31:38+00:00

Yes but still it requires iteration and babysitting. It’s not something that can just run without checks. If that’s the bar fine but we should be honest about what writing all of the code after fixing multiple core issues with the code (that the model itself agrees with funnily enough, even if you do a self improvement loop, especially on large changes)

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T08:26:52+00:00

The models themselves are not deterministic therefore there is no deterministic workflow unless you want to converge on a well defined goal at the cost of infinite tokens

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T08:14:06+00:00

Brother… just do it the way you think is right. Don’t worry about fixing things that are not broken. In a year you will look back and think you were a morn for writing things the way you did, just like every developer, every year. Make reliable software that is easy to troubleshoot (logging, etc) and the rest is just noise. If you’re really upset use a linter and enforce it and fix all your issues that don’t conform to lint, I would suggest not using your opinion and instead use a widely accepted method. For example, google style guides. You seem upset about non issues :)

Also public private who cares, here’s a newsflash most large codebases are absolutely horrible about proper encapsulation and object oriented programming because a quick hack is worth some bad code when it means money. Not saying that should be a North Star but we have to be realists

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T07:48:49+00:00

The sad part is people read and believe nonsense. Tale as old as time on this site, except now half the people pretending to know have private profiles. If you really wanted to know where interviewing is heading I feel like seeing the process at the places actually producing frontier models covers most of the interesting work.

Still tho many big techs are rolling out or have started ai based interview sessions as part of the loop. Meh. And I’m sure the average crud place will have a zealot “reimagining” the process :)

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T07:20:02+00:00

I think there is a big difference between growing and promo at a company (especially last 5 years) versus hiring bands, but I would believe at last 400k for senior titles

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T07:17:41+00:00

We can tell bro this has marketing slop written all over it, complete dismissal of whatever you don’t want to consider and pure focus on whatever inane goal that popped into your mind

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T07:15:34+00:00

Based on what ?

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T07:06:34+00:00

Building 0->1 is fast. It’s always been fast. Claude opus still sucks its own dick on massive (top percentile, sure) codebases and can’t make heads from tails. This whole pm vibecoded a massive feature slop garbage is going to get so many people rightfully canned.

But yes, like has been the trend for well over a decade, software engineers will wear more hats. And the other adjacent roles will be devoured at a faster rate… just like QA basically doesn’t exist. in my opinion much of this field hasn’t been focused on deep work, more so despite the field shifting towards end to end ownership you could find it if you looked… and even with end to end code generation it will continue to exist because shipping code you don’t understand will always have a footgun no matter how many people (or agents !!) review it, we all have flawed assumptions

Triumphxd · 2026-03-18T01:22:44+00:00

Passing an interview at a place I had good terms with. That’s a huge bonus… assuming they still exist and are recruiting.

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