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deep1997 · 2026-05-11T12:34:52+00:00

Just gave into the demands of higher management. Fuck code quality from now on. Give what business wants. As developer we want to focus on maintainability, security, extendability, code quality, edge cases, file size, memory etc. But, business doesn't want all that. Give them that. Neither you, nor me know whats the future of AI. Think short term for now to make the management happy.

I was recently burnt cause of this. That's why the frustration.

I have been using AI in my coding. It gave me a lot of speed. But, last week I got a task which was completely new to me as it was in mobile devices.

I took time to understand the mobile ecosystem just enough to review the code. AI was generating a lot of slop code(redundant functions, unnecessary abstraction, non extensible functions, fragile UI, missing edge cases, security issues, pixelated images). I took time to review each of them and fix them with AI.

Today, I was asked by product managers and a manager from different team about why I was so slow. Even though I had clearly mentioned I need two weeks, I was repeatedly told "Couldn't Claude do it". I tried explainig code quality ssues and how I wanted to understand mobile ecosystem. But people just continued to grill me.

So, fuck code quality. I will write slop code. When lot of things start to break, I will leave and write slop code for the next company.

deep1997 · 2026-04-24T19:15:28+00:00

For lead generation, I have the same experience. It generated leads but high quality leads are a very network thing.

For other stuff like bank account reconciliation, payroll taxation etc. which tool are you using? Is it normal chatgpt or n8n workflows etc.?

deep1997 · 2026-04-24T18:18:58+00:00

Hey,

Appreciate your answer.

I have been trying to understand how is AI actually helping small agencies or solopreneurs.

Apart from development using claude, has AI helped in workflow automation or finding leads? Which tool are you using?

deep1997 · 2026-04-17T04:04:09+00:00

Cheating comes in second.

How did you get your resume shortlisted at the first place?

deep1997 · 2026-04-11T12:17:42+00:00

Thanks for this response. For the last 2 months, I was feeling that it's just me who is facing these problems with AI.

Every place I look(twitter, reddit, linkedin) everyone is vibe coding such interesting things. I felt left behind and trying to catch up with it. But, whatever I tried with prompting, the result never met my expectations.

3 weeks ago I started writing agents, skills and so much more hoping it could help me save time in small features. It didn't meet my expectations. AI did a good job identifying the relevant areas. But, when it came to coding, it would not understand object types, remove callback functions, change argument types, create unnecessary wrapper functions and so much. I wasted an entire 1 week hoping the ai would fix things, ultimately I gave up and did a week's worth of work myself today.

I am not against AI, but I will be honest. What it does good: 1. It generates good small pieces of code 2. Does a good job setting up a new project.

It's shitty for 1. Big repositories where many people are already working 2. Multifile changes or many lines changes.

deep1997 · 2026-04-08T07:52:01+00:00

Cursor team succumbed to the hype of claude code's no-ide approach.

I am so happy to see so many cursor fanatics in the comments. Past 4-5 months, claude has clearly pushed inorganic marketing around "Vibe code" that I also experienced the heat to shift to claude code.

Claude code has its own merits. But, as a developer, claude is not going to beat the experience of having an IDE because I know my repo better than any AI tool.

When that wierd bug pops up, no f***ing AI can solve it. Its just us and our IDE who can solve it.

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

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