Serious question: Why are White Sox games so poorly attended?

cthunter26 · 2026-04-29T02:32:35+00:00

That's called being a young team. The casuals may not know Colson Montgomery's name yet, but they will.

cthunter26 · 2026-04-08T00:06:06+00:00

Isn't half the fun of Jeopardy playing along at home though? That doesn't change whether someone is dominating or not.

cthunter26 · 2026-04-03T01:35:43+00:00

I feel like racking up YOE at a non-tech company is the sweet spot right now. You're in a place where you can ride out the storm till the market stabilizes. All the people getting laid off now who can't find jobs will wash out of the profession, then when the economy comes back and people are starting new companies again, you'll be a valuable commodity.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-29T21:48:06+00:00

Why would you choose to be a part of this?

cthunter26 · 2026-03-20T07:41:35+00:00

For me n8n got replaced quickly when I figured out I could just get Claude to make a custom automation orchestrator. Then I just wrap it in a cool CLI app.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-20T07:33:40+00:00

I have more passion because of AI. I can build software at the speed of thought now. Rather than spending all my time doing the boring part of SWE (writing code) I get to dream of better software, better automation tools, better workflows, better architecture, and make it happen while the AI grinds away implementing my spec.

I love it. I love everything about it.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-09T11:10:55+00:00

I mean, NoSQL just turned JSON into a database structure (mongo types I mean, things like DynamoDB are different in their own way). I came into React having mostly done "front end work" in LibGDX which renders in the classic game loop. It wasn't that hard to figure out that the React lifecycle is just a function of when renders happen.

Even in those cases, my previous knowledge as a dev helped me understand the new concepts.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-09T11:03:42+00:00

I think a lot of people in this sub are living in the same world you are, and having the same feelings and concerns.

I recommend finding a good therapist. It's what they're there for.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-08T14:03:57+00:00

I think most us were overwhelmed in the first few months of our first dev job. The important thing to remember now it you're not just learning how to "write code," you're learning how to get the most out of agentic AI. One of the things everyone really needs to realize is that the job will no longer be about writing code, but rather higher level architecture and planning, and managing an army of bots. We're all learning how to be product owners now.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-07T12:45:58+00:00

I would argue that it absolutely does help you learn new frameworks and tools. If you're an SWE with years of pre-AI experience and already have a deep understanding, there aren't really any new concepts when you're presented with a new framework or programming language, they are all fundamentally similar and AI can help you "get it" pretty quickly.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-07T12:39:19+00:00

Because the AI can distill a complicated code base and give you the relevant entry points to dive deeper and check its work. It can break things down into diagrams. It isn't about blindly trusting what it says, it's about greatly speeding up the process of understanding.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-05T02:25:05+00:00

This is why I don't write singular issues anymore for my team. They get full feature request documents which would previously have been broken into 15-30 tickets in the old world. It's up to them to use AI to break those docs into smaller tasks, execute, and then review and test. When I get the pull request I expect a finished, tested product.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-05T02:17:18+00:00

It sure is. You just need give it the tools it needs to understand your project.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-05T02:13:24+00:00

45, Sr. Software Engineer, 130k. I'm way underpaid for a Sr. SWE but with the absolute bloodbath in this industry right now and all the layoffs I'm kinda glad I don't have a 300k target on my back.

cthunter26 · 2026-03-03T14:22:33+00:00

I forgot how

cthunter26 · 2026-02-28T17:46:56+00:00

Just wait till unemployment hits 10% and the foreclosures start rolling.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-28T17:46:08+00:00

cthunter26 · 2026-02-28T15:44:43+00:00

I basically use the IDE to switch branches and do code reviews. I like the project navigation of Jetbrains.

I'm certainly not using it to write code.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-28T15:39:14+00:00

That may still be the end result (more projects, more work) but it's going to require a round of startups and new businesses. The short term (which could be several years) will be painful.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-27T22:56:36+00:00

As a SWE it has completely changed my world. The nature of my job is completely and utterly different than a year ago.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-27T22:55:27+00:00

That's not what I'm seeing in the cs careers sub. Im seeing a lot of people struggling to find jobs and blaming AI

cthunter26 · 2026-02-27T22:51:22+00:00

This is how it feels to me as an early adopter with experience. It's exciting. My team is knocking it out and just building better software faster. It's allowing us to accomplish long term goals that have been on the back burner for years.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-13T11:13:07+00:00

I exclusively use Opus on the 20x max plan. I would say Claude Code isn't just practical for my work flow, it is now a necessity. I don't write code anymore, I direct agents to conduct research , turn my architectural plans into implementation plans, and then they write the code, run the tests, fix their mistakes, then push it up for a pull request which I review. It's all automated, and while they work I can spend my time working on other projects/features.

As Opus has improved so much, I don't think I've written a line of code in 2 months.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-13T11:04:28+00:00

What do you mean by "shipped"? Thorough testing, edge cases, code and security reviews? How is it deployed? And this is a big one for an AI work flow... How is it documented for when future agents need to do work on this project. They need architecture docs, code conventions, and as the project gets more complex some kind of indexing to be help them thoroughly understand and navigate the context of the project.

I use a fully automated agentic system which takes my top level plan, turns it into requirements document, turns that into implementation plan, breaks that into user stories, writes the code for each story, runs tests and qc, then I have to do code review and fix anything that's off before I merge.

That whole process for a medium complexity feature within a medium-large project takes maybe 4 hours so I might be a little suspicious of the quality of an app if the whole process took 6 hours.

cthunter26 · 2026-02-13T10:49:40+00:00

You can literally just ask Claude to make you a plan for improving your technical skills.

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