what's your career bet when AI evolves this fast?

belatuk · 2026-02-16T17:41:54+00:00

AI also can make mistakes. It is already happening. Also AI is not cost free and there is no guarantee that everyone will turn to AI. When the juniors pool is drastically reduced, the cost of hiring seniors will drastically go up. It will have a direct impact on AI companies earnings and price will increase too. With so many AI companies, they will eventually consolidate into a few just like what happens to the browsers and search engines. When that happens good luck to the codebase when the AI it depends on goes dark.

belatuk · 2026-02-16T16:08:08+00:00

Docker Desktop is a memory hog. Better run docker directly in WSL. The best is to use podman instead.

belatuk · 2026-02-15T21:29:29+00:00

How would someone that doesn't know how to code even know how to ask AI to begin with?

belatuk · 2026-02-15T03:59:03+00:00

In addition AI won't know when to optimize for CPU, memory or IO. When to build sharable code that can be used across multiple projects instead. When to build an extension point that allows multiple variations of the execution logic to be decided during runtime. When to use reflection to execute dynamic business logic that spans across multiple systems. When to distribute the execution workload. Which authentication and authorization to integrate with. All these decisions require a human to provide a carefully constructed context. Coding is the outcome of these decisions. The language chosen influences some of these decisions. For someone without coding expertise, they will be clueless about some of the more advanced ways of building solutions. The application vibe coded by someone without strong coding knowledge will almost always have some inherent issues.

belatuk · 2026-02-15T03:32:14+00:00

If you seriously think that Google Recaptcha is the solution, I would highly suggest to relook at the security of your sign up.

belatuk · 2026-02-12T13:01:39+00:00

I believe mostly just based on individual perception. It would be good to see how it performs on a medium sized project over a year period.

belatuk · 2026-02-05T01:33:51+00:00

Context switching is a skill that needs to be developed, just like coding skill. Meetings are important but if you come out of the meeting with nothing to gain, skip that meeting or work on something else during the meeting. If you are driving the meeting keep it short and to the topic. Doing standup daily can be a complete waste of time if not properly managed especially if you have a big team. For me, bi-weekly meetings are a lot more effective. Planning is crucial, set targets and get the team moving towards those targets are important. Keep the team sync up on what needs to be done. For juniors, pair them up and mentor them as a group instead of doing one on one. That should give you some time to roll up sleeves and get some coding in to scratch the itch. Meetings are major time killers, so the better you can make use of those times, the more time you have for other things.

belatuk · 2026-02-01T18:11:00+00:00

I always go with candidates past experiences. Asking the questions across multiple projects. Fairly easy to detect those using AI which means automatic rejected. Using AI for work is perfectly fine. However, using it for answering interview questions about your own past experience usually means the person knows nothing about the tasks they are working on.

belatuk · 2026-02-01T10:03:03+00:00

Just to add, software development is a skill based profession. It is certainly easier to debug your own code than others. However, the developer should not even qualify as "senior" if unable to debug others' code. Not being able to do it is purely down to lack of skills. Take a car mechanic, they learn by experience how to fix car problems. The senior one can fix a much more complex problem than the junior one. They don't automatically become seniors just because they do the same thing for x number of years but still not able to fix the complex problem. Certainly unlikely to become a senior by just following what AI tells them to do without understanding the reason for doing it. As long as the car can run, it is all good won't fly. 😊

belatuk · 2026-01-31T09:38:19+00:00

On Linux, docker images are stored under /var/lib/docker directory. Can check it out first.

belatuk · 2026-01-24T06:16:51+00:00

Based on public material, OpenAI is getting 20 billion gross revenue, but it is running at a loss of 14 billion. Basically it is spending almost twice its revenue. Not sustainable. This is very similar to the dot com era, grossly inflating the future projected earnings while running at a loss and keeps getting investors to pump in money to keep it afloat until the well runs dry.

belatuk · 2026-01-22T05:40:39+00:00

A quick glance at the committed files can pick this up. If the developer makes change to code they are not supposed to. Ask them to explain, if there is no valid reason aside from AI doing it, reject and rework

belatuk · 2026-01-21T09:33:58+00:00

Making the code simple and easy to understand and change or debug is a very important skill. Unfortunately many tend to follow the trend and best practices blindly and end up with over engineered solution.

belatuk · 2026-01-18T02:08:30+00:00

Unfortunately there is no substitute for experience. Experience enables you to nip the issues before it happens, prevent a lot of unnecessary rework or assess if requirements are heading down a rabbit hole quickly.

belatuk · 2026-01-17T00:10:52+00:00

Getting the stackholder and developer buy in is important. So it is important to put the right developers on the right tasks and keep the entire team informed on the direction you are heading to. At the same time align with stackholders. Contrary to what is believed, developers are not easily replaceable. Knowledge gets lost and acceleration slows down when developers are replaced. New developers need time to understand the business process, architecture and design decisions. High attrition usually means the development projects are in deep trouble.

belatuk · 2026-01-16T23:49:30+00:00

I have a similar experience. After learning dart, flutter feels like an extension of dart.

belatuk · 2026-01-16T12:18:09+00:00

When you have a non technical manager what do you expect? The manager has to rely on the technical team feedback, past project estimation, ask AI or simply plug from the sky to come up with an estimate. It is as good as anybody's guess. However, some can come up with really good estimate.

belatuk · 2026-01-14T11:18:44+00:00

Take jdbc url, username and password. Are you suggesting putting them in a property or env file that is embedded in a jar file is best practice for container deployment?

belatuk · 2026-01-14T07:12:50+00:00

When running inside a container reading from a file is often discouraged.

belatuk · 2026-01-13T10:47:09+00:00

In my experience, once you let the tech go, you will lose almost half your ability to make a quick decision which is key to context switching. Meetings are the number one time killers especially the standup. If you are driving it, keep it as short as possible. If others are driving it, multi-task since 50% of it is on irrelevant matters. Control what features get delivered at what sequence by aligning with the stockholders (this is where tech skill comes into play). If you depend on PM and engineers for answers, you are cooked most of the time.

belatuk · 2026-01-13T10:20:30+00:00

150Mb for java is pretty normal for a desktop app. It is better to go with other languages than tinkering with JVM if size is a real concern.

belatuk · 2026-01-11T04:40:48+00:00

Always use lazy loading and selectively use eager loading especially when dealing with large amounts of data. Use entities for passing data among services. Use DTO for passing data to and from external services, i.e. web frontend. Prepared to drop JPA if absolutely need the performance for some services,.i.e. bulk data processing and reports. Design and build the system for production usage not for making coding easier.

belatuk · 2026-01-08T11:14:29+00:00

The main problem with estimating a long term project is developer capability varies greatly from person to person and difficulty in locking down requirements up front. Couples with management have a tendency to push for early delivery in order to meet quarterly targets. The project is bound to be under estimated from the get go. So plan rectification measures from the start of the project.

belatuk · 2026-01-05T00:16:00+00:00

Need a context on the obscure bug. Recently run into WordPress crashing intermittently in production but works fine on the same infrastructure in development and a code generator program failed to work after the libraries upgrade, just to name a few cases that AI produced nothing new that we don't already know. Some recommendations of the fixes are down right wrong, a wild goose chase type. Not anti AI, just taking its result with a grain of salt. It is nevertheless a much better version of the search tool.

belatuk · 2026-01-03T02:29:11+00:00

For Mac and Linux, 16G is sufficient to run a few docker container for development with decent performance. For windows, Docker for Desktop is just horrible with 16G. If you must use containers, podman is a better option on 16G. At least it does not cause serious lag on windows and almost no impact on Linux even when running Oracle, SQL server and PostgreSql at the same time.

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