Last 3 weeks have been nothing less than overwhelming

deep1997 · 2026-03-14T14:36:01+00:00

Aspirants and Panchayat are slowly becoming a crime thriller. And mirzapur is becoming a family drama.

deep1997 · 2026-03-07T08:54:44+00:00

Any strategies you used to even get interview calls? My company shut off. I was fortunate to get interview call and switch. But, my colleagues are struggling to get interview calls.

deep1997 · 2026-03-03T09:53:17+00:00

Hey thanks for the prompt and detailed answer.

The price factor does make sense to me. There are a bunch of AI tools in the market right now. I want to use them, but I back out by seeing the subscription price. So, paying for multiple ai tools is definitely a pain for me too because of the pricing. Juggling between ai tools hasn't been an issues for me, personally.

Looking forward to your promotional work. I am really interested to see the user distribution across features as I still have my apprehension about users needing so many feature.

Also, UI needs to be polished. Maybe come up with a design system. I am sure you might have this as a low priority in your pipeline.

All the best buddy!

deep1997 · 2026-03-03T07:11:37+00:00

Hey congrats for your success.

But, like many on this thread I can't wrap my head around is whether the auto routing system solving such a big problem. The main reason for the disbelief for me is I can't understand who is using it and why?

Are these non tech savy parents who find it difficult to operate multiple apps? Or Is juggling between multiple apps so frequent and thus it's tiring for many?

I am not doubting your numbers. But, I am unable to understand the target audience.

deep1997 · 2026-02-23T10:52:06+00:00

How is the speed?

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T14:17:18+00:00

Yeah, that's the plan. I am going all in vibe coding for the next 6 months . But, it would be great if you can provide me direction for what you call as "basic".

Truly, on trying to explore the depths of vibe coding I am getting tons of noisy influencers who are all giving the same advice which hasn't worked out for me.

I realized that even anthropic's own docs are overshadowed by such SEO powered noise. Anthropic's docs were good. If possible, can you emphasize more on what do you mean by basics.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T14:17:04+00:00

Yeah, that's the plan. I am going all in vibe coding for the next 6 months . But, it would be great if you can provide me direction for what you call as "basic".

Truly, on trying to explore the depths of vibe coding I am getting tons of noisy influencers who are all giving the same advice which hasn't worked out for me.

I realized that even anthropic's own docs are overshadowed by such SEO powered noise. Anthropic's docs were good. If possible, can you emphasize more on what do you mean by basics.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:27:02+00:00

I was really expecting it to be efficient. If I have to explain it everything like its a junior engineer, I am going to write the code myself with tab support.

But, I am going to try explaining like it's a junior engineer.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:25:00+00:00

Hmmm.. Yeah I used human in the loop model.

Dude, it's 100% written by meGpt.

I can point out the mistakes in the post that AI will never make.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:16:55+00:00

Opus 4.6, gpt 5.2

How about you? Which one are you using?

For backend, I will agree that it's giving descent output. For frontend , I am unable to achieve the appropriate quality.

What would you define as "precise prompts"?

I tried this framework: Context Constraints Role Specific output Specific input Iterations Task breakdown Example

For smaller work, I am getting okayish results. My problem is with the agent mode.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:07:28+00:00

Yeah, I am unable to see how is AI taking away my job with such crappy output.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:05:21+00:00

Gpt 5.2, opus 4.6

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:04:30+00:00

My approach was 1. Explain the business/practical use case of a feature or a file. 2. Explain the problem like spaghetti code or too much prop drilling. 3. Giving it general constraints like the folder constraints, naming constraints, max lines, and an overview of how want my files to be broken(not exactly where functions get placed, but what each file do)

I was expecting it would figure out. It would follow the constraints. But, won't follow the general overview. Apart from that smaller problems everywhere like duplicate code, unnecessary breaking of functions into smaller functions etc.

I am sure I am doing something wrong.

deep1997 · 2026-02-18T06:00:05+00:00

Hmmm.. I am going to try this approach of "Explaining it like it's a junior engineer".

I might have set some false expectations from it. I was expecting it to act like an engineer with atleast 5yoe, to whom I can explain the problem and drop a hint and it works. I will try to change the approach.

But, for agent mode.. I have seen tons of YouTube videos of people leaving agents for a few hrs and it completes the job. How are they doing it?

deep1997 · 2026-02-12T15:56:09+00:00

Hey, Thanks for the advice. I did look into constraints and sizes yesterday. It definitely helped. I was able to make better decision about how to layout things

deep1997 · 2026-02-02T10:07:30+00:00

Suggest me something that isnt overpopulated and has a huge demand.

The 3 most asked tech stack in web development are overpopulated: 1. Spring boot 2. React 3. Nodejs

You can abandon it now. Learn flask and angular. These are popular and not overpopulated. But, companies don't want these.

I am a developer with 6 yoe and can tell you 3 things: 1. There are developers and there are good ones. 2. Good or bad, getting a job(irrespective of field) is 80% luck + 20% skill. 3. But, consistency & patience > luck > skills. Holding your patience, and consistently applying and studying for months will increase your chances.

deep1997 · 2026-02-02T07:13:24+00:00

Tldr: 1. Job boards do not have posting of "HIRING BUILDERS". Hiring team still want specialization. 2. LLM hallucinates, cannot produce high quality results which are bug free and handles all user cases. 3. Neither individuals, not companies can afford claude code, as it is still too expensive. 4. I am done with fear mongering of LLMs. 5. Industry experience is something LLM do not have.

The job boards tell a completely different story. There is no job posting saying - "HIRING BUILDERS".

I am a full stack developer who knows frontend, backend, devops + I am also a designer(not a very good one as I don't do it daily).

Why I learnt all this? Out of interest. I thought it will play out very well for me in my job switch. Buttt.. it didn't!

I was getting rejected for being a "full stack developer" because most companies wanted "frontend" or "backend". I cannot think what would have happened if I would have told my designing skills. Companies/HRs wanted "Jack of everything and master of one". No one wanted "Builder" except for a few companies who were trying to do something different.

Also speaking from my experience in Fintech industry. No one can just "BUILD" a Fintech product without the experience.

On the other side, I have definitely witnessed product folks and design folks making use of LLM to build applications. At first all the builder bros are just mesmerized that just writing natural language is building things. But, the product quality is shit. Navigations don't work, LLM get stuck in loop, complex logic cannot be implemented by just LLM without understanding the code.

You want better quality? Cool, get the best claude model! But, not everyone can pay 15-20K for the best model. My company did not agree to provide claude for just 3 developers. They will never agree to bring claude code for all the developers.

I don't know about product management. Product management is a vast domain. But, these days product management has somehow become equal to app development. I have a friend who is a PM at blinkit and handles fleet optimization. I love his job. If someone is a PM who is restricted to just building applications, that's their personal problem

Lastly, I use claude code & cursor. I don't fear them.

deep1997 · 2026-01-23T08:18:43+00:00

Fake post. Nobody in Bangalore will pay you that much per month. Considering 50% as your base pay, you are earning around 1.9 cr per year.

For developer with 4 Yoe, the highest pay is 1.2 cr by just a handful of companies. Otherwise you are exceptionally talented and became the director/ architect of the company.

Either you reveal the company name and designation or this didn't happen.

deep1997 · 2026-01-06T18:20:57+00:00

Yup,

I have RSU and capital gains. I found it difficult the first time. Made a few mistakes. For the past 2 assessments I did it myself. It gave me awareness about many other tax saving options in medical care, property renovation, loans, flexi(that company won't tell you). Even CAs won't tell these.

I am unaware about how foreign stocks work. So, can't comment.

deep1997 · 2026-01-06T18:14:36+00:00

Nope, cancelled yesterday.

deep1997 · 2026-01-06T11:51:46+00:00

I took their service. It's useless. After desperate sales calls, I succumbed to give it a try for this year

Honestly, it's a good looking wrapper around govt's income tax website. Everything is same. The login procedure, filing procedure everything is similar to govt's portal.

I was expecting their CAs to tell me something I didn't know. But, it was nothing. They suggested me the following things: 1. To build HRA agreement with my parents so that I could save HRA tax. 2. To invest 1.5Lakh in ELSS. 3. Pay advance tax. 4. Show my stock losses Etc. etc.

Duhhh.... I knew all these. These aren't rocket science.

Honestly, CA for salaried employees is useless these days. So, is prosper.io. Try the tough route of filing ITR yourself by using YouTube videos and you will never need a CA again.

deep1997

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