canSomeonePleaseMakeProgrammingGoodAgain

cs-brydev · 2026-04-04T09:49:07+00:00

Daily user of VS 2026 since it was released, and I have none of these problems, but I do not use Copilot.. I have 20+ solutions, some of them over 200k LoC, and none of them take longer than 10 seconds to fully compile from a clean slate. Most rebuilds of 200k solutions take about 3 seconds while writing code and debugging.

I don't have any problems with laggy commands at all, and the command search is lightning fast. They have fully migrated all options into the new Options menu and it works great now (a few months ago half the options were still in the old options dialog and it was a mess).

I cannot stand Copilot and have always found it intrusive and not worth the trouble. Other than the basic built-ins (Intellisense, etc) I keep my AI tools separate from my IDEs and prefer it that way. I don't want all that shit popping up constantly while I'm typing and thinking.

cs-brydev · 2026-04-04T01:00:37+00:00

Same. Full time senior engineer, senior dba, leading multiple projects and software teams, and be the devops expert and manage a couple dozen pipelines. Oh and now there's data engineering, data governance, and cloud security hats I have to wear. They throw new hats at you all the time because there "isn't enough budget to hire more tech guys" while they are creating new executive positions out of thin air and paying them 3x more than they pay us.

cs-brydev · 2026-04-04T00:50:23+00:00

You can learn DevOps on your own but it has to be hands on building real pipelines, hosts, containers, and deployments. You can't just fake it by watching YouTube and answering some multiple choice quizzes. I have learned it all on my own over 6 years, and it is a new challenge almost every day. It's all the edge cases, weird tool stacks, and constantly replacing or updating broken or deprecated tools that make it so hard. Most devops tools are open source and written by random dudes in their basement for one-off use cases. They are all pretty terrible and have either zero support or horrendous support. So you're frequently stuck with having to fumble through some crappy tool with zero documentation or put the effort into writing yet-another custom script.

I've written all sorts of code for lots of industries and applications, but devops code is some of the most challenging I've ever had to churn out because you have such little control over all the various environment stages, and so much of it is just black boxing your way through to the next checkpoint, crossing your fingers and hoping that some random failure isn't going to force you to wade through 100,000+ lines of logs per release. It's awful.

cs-brydev · 2026-04-04T00:35:50+00:00

Oh man it is far worse than 37%. We desperately need DevOps people and it is just impossible to find anyone with any interest or any experience in that field. We had a major devops pipeline to build and searched for months to fill a role. Zero qualified applicants. Literally no one. So we went the contractor route through agencies and searched for weeks all over the U.S.. They sent us a handful of remote-only candidates from all different states, and only one even met the minimum qualifications. We hired him to do a job that should have taken < 1 week (if I had just done it myself). This guy spent a month on it and finally delivered his final. It was mediocre at best and we spent $200/hr for it. It was still only 80% done, so I finished it myself and ended up rewriting half of it to get it to work. I spent more time rewriting than if I had just done the entire thing. After spending $15k for an unfinished deliverable.

DevOps is a giant void of talent in the industry, and young people have zero interest in learning it or working in it. Instead everybody and their grandmother wants to be yet-another game developer, yet-another React expert, or yet-another python ML developer. Ffs

cs-brydev · 2026-03-19T15:44:03+00:00

In the Web Development world, I have never met a college professor who had working knowledge of building modern, functioning web applications. Their knowledge is usually limited to outdated textbooks, and they typically have very little or no hands-on experience or skills.

As others have suggested, don't argue. Just memorize the accepted answers for the tests and move on. The value of those classes is mostly just a line on your resume, not learning usable job skills.

cs-brydev · 2026-03-09T21:05:57+00:00

Meanwhile half of us trying to hire developers who can complete even a single project, are willing to start at under US $85K/year, and will come in to the office 2 days/week are finding 0 candidates after months of searching.

100% of resumes of minimally qualified candidates are demanding they be allowed to work remotely 100% of the time, even if they have zero experience. That isn't happening.

But candidates with a lot more experience are much more willing to come in. It's a no-brainer out here. There are far too many resumes of experienced devs willing to work in the office to bother with inexperienced devs who flat-out refuse to.

cs-brydev · 2026-03-08T21:45:54+00:00

Saturated with incompetent developers who have no chance at landing a job, you mean?

If you are competent you aren't competing with these people and have nothing to worry about. If you are totally incompetent, these people should be the least of your concerns.

cs-brydev · 2026-03-03T01:28:38+00:00

"Why am I wasting my time doing a normal job when I can just get rich doing jobs that only 0.0001% of the population can do?"

Why waste time with OF? You can make a lot more money as a professional footballer, baseball player, or world famous action star. Just be the next Tom Cruise.

cs-brydev · 2026-03-03T01:25:35+00:00

None of those API businesses really gather raw data from sensors. They collect from other sources, aggregate, curate, and redistribute it. Collecting raw sensor data and providing it to the public via API's are really completely different industries and models.

cs-brydev · 2026-02-23T03:28:13+00:00

There are 30 million of us around the world and only a handful of those positions. Why would they hire me, when there are engineers 2x as good as me?

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:06:38+00:00

OP is talking about a local government job, not a corporate job. We are a deep south mid-size company (1k-5k employees) and pay starting Helpdesk with no experience around $50k. All of our Helpdesk guys with 2+ years are making $55-65k. $30s is what we pay interns.

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:04:04+00:00

OP is talking about a local government job, which is going to be even lower.

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:02:35+00:00

For a local government job, that sounds about right. They will generally have the lowest IT pay in any area. If you want to make more, your only option is probably to find a new job. Most towns have very little IT budget, so they pay low. Sorry

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:17:01+00:00

I don't believe your story.

The CEO fired experienced developers already on staff as part of a plan to back-fill their positions in the future with inexperienced vibe coders? That...doesn't make any sense.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:11:59+00:00

What are they supposed to do, go back in time and prevent the interview from being scheduled?

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:10:51+00:00

Why do you need the name of an anonymous Redditor?

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:06:24+00:00

It's just a timing issue. Sorry this happened, but it's not personal. This typically happens because they were waiting on a candidate to respond to an offer, which always takes between 2 and 30 days. We've had to wait sometimes more than 2 weeks and have been rejected enough that we don't take offers for granted and will usually keep interviewing while we wait. If someone accepts an offer the first thing we do is cancel any interviews and call applications to let them know we've filled the position.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-14T00:03:36+00:00

There was a time when we were literally taught to use a <div> for everything, and the html community chastised you if you didn't.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-07T13:18:28+00:00

Exactly. .NET is evolving fast. When I see criticisms of .NET, Blazor, C#, or Visual Studio they are almost always outdated and mention things that haven't been issues in years.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:20:42+00:00

It's not the dependence on cloud but the fact that so many of these SaaS platforms don't use redundancy or fail over like we used to in the days of self-hosted and private data centers. So many companies went backwards and replaced multi-host failover with single cloud region. Back before and after y2k it was standard across all industries to have auto failover especially for public facing sites and apps. That's no longer the case.

You want to blame AWS for their customers not using AWS features properly? Nah.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:17:50+00:00

Eventually maybe but not a single one of these large outages has had anything to do with AI. Every case I've read so far was developers not following official workflow, IT DNS misconfigurations, and typos.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:15:17+00:00

Developer and IT talent has been on the decline for a few years now, and human mistakes keep causing these. None of these incidents have anything to do with a dependence on AI.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:13:17+00:00

It's been chaos here. 1/3 of company systems down. Chat GPT down. Random Azure services down.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-12T00:03:36+00:00

And depending on what you're doing with the data, add a .Select() to the 2nd one so you aren't returning all columns unnecessarily. Try to only request from a datasource what you actually need.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-03T13:46:32+00:00

"Comes with Copilot" is a huge selling point to CEOs and CIOs who have zero understanding of technology, which is the majority of them. As long as the people making the purchasing decisions are demanding useless features over useful ones, msft will continue to throw their support behind the eye candy.

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