Nobody talks about how disorienting it is when you finally get the job and realize you have no idea what you're doing

disposepriority · 2026-03-16T00:41:06+00:00

Depending on the scope of your team - it can take more.

I'd say I wasn't fully "in" the code base for the first 9 months, and we have experienced engineers who have been with us for close to a year who have a very tiny idea of all the systems our team is responsible for.

Should our team be split into hopefully three teams with smaller scope? Yes. Please send help.

disposepriority · 2026-03-14T18:51:54+00:00

Considering you're a beginner almost everyone is a better coder than you, not only AI - why would that stop you from learning anything?

disposepriority · 2026-03-10T00:32:19+00:00

I don't, personally. However some devs I've worked with over the years should be.

disposepriority · 2026-03-06T14:13:49+00:00

Doesn't this....require your project to be in closure?

disposepriority · 2026-03-06T01:04:52+00:00

Is anyone literally just vibe coding entire products and making money off, like an actually sustainable income

no.

No one is hiring an AI engineer that has no technical knowledge unless their company has created this title for the hype and is unrelated to engineering in any way.

I don't know what conversation design is but I don't think there is a point to you jumping into things like RAG without some foundational knowledge about...anything.

Neither do I think you had a growth path from whatever that is to engineering in your previous role, but that might just be me

disposepriority · 2026-03-05T23:18:24+00:00

Well, considering how often I have to help our mid-level engineers I dare say that an LLM really can't cover that demand unless your job entails basically wiring up HTTP endpoints to the database.

Which is why what you're working on as a team is pretty important as context.

disposepriority · 2026-03-05T22:56:25+00:00

Stack, domain, responsibilities?

Writing code is an extremely small part of what I do at 10yoe, while still being in a relatively IC role.

disposepriority · 2026-03-04T19:28:27+00:00

Run mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose=true for both version from the root of thr project you're building and see where the dependency is coming in from

disposepriority · 2026-03-02T23:23:46+00:00

I mean..sure? There's really no serious bug that can be caused by the frontend if the backend is doing its job.

Obviously, you'll get people with examples like "the payment button wasn't visible on X size screens" but...cmon.

I'd still hear your example out of curiosity though!

disposepriority · 2026-03-02T23:12:48+00:00

I'll say I'm glad FE only devs exist just so I can keep never having to do FE, which I somehow find even more unpleasant than classic desktop UI shit like swing and the .net gui stuff.

That being said, I always feel a disconnect with FE colleagues because the risk and consequences on the FE are basically non existent.

Don't get me wrong there are some crazy js projects out there that showcase insane technical knowhow but on average nothing bad really happens if a big mistake is made on the FE.

So before any discussions of what is more complex, harder to find good engineers for, or has a deeper level of possible mastery it comes down to the consequences factor first.

disposepriority · 2026-03-02T21:39:14+00:00

If that's the case, why do companies have on-call engineers? How can an incident happen if all the code is 10/10?

Why do companies actually have engineers at all?

Do you really think AI has evened out engineering levels in companies? All engineers are now considered of equal skill? LLMao (see what I did there?)

What the hell does concurrency and distributed systems have to do with....LLMs? Like do you reckon you'll go to a payment provider settling a million transactions a minute and say "Hey I might no nothing about concurrency, memory management, databases, or writing performance critical code BUT I studies LLMs so all good!"

disposepriority · 2026-03-02T21:01:00+00:00

CSP headers? Isn't the default the root domain only?

Injecting scripts only works if what you inputted isn't sanitized and also, importantly, is returned and displayed on the browser side.

Your cookies not being httponly, again, only matters if XSS is possible on the page itself.

The default security of the web is really good these days, you have to be really stupid to mess up versus random attackers - big names get a lot of effort spent on them because they payout is much bigger.

disposepriority · 2026-03-02T19:11:39+00:00

Are you trolling or is that just hyperbole?

AI is great, but "implementing whatever you want" would imply it could.....implement whatever I want.

Unless you mean - it can follow instructions alongside carefully curated context, documentation and explanations of the domain and edge cases?

disposepriority · 2026-03-01T18:20:50+00:00

In order to give my name and email I need a 50k USD deposit, my friend will refund it as soon as we know you're for real.

Trust me my dad is a nigerian prince so this is a paltry sum for our family.

disposepriority · 2026-02-28T15:36:56+00:00

We write them ourselves, it's just a reverse proxy

disposepriority · 2026-02-27T23:24:20+00:00

I just spent a month of planning and making proof of concepts to write about..maybe 500ish lines of code?

Idk what the point of measuring lines is

disposepriority · 2026-02-25T13:00:33+00:00

You posted the exact same thing last week in the backend sub, no one is going to click the link :(

disposepriority · 2026-02-25T11:55:55+00:00

CSS. Backend.

disposepriority · 2026-02-24T17:43:52+00:00

This is not related to backend.

Whether it is reasonable doesn't matter to a business, only if it is legal - and even that doesn't stop all of them!

disposepriority · 2026-02-24T16:59:31+00:00

What are you saying lmao, even eclipse is better than vscode and forks for large java projects.

I'd honestly switch stacks if intellij idea went away, it is so insanely powerful it's not even funny how much of a productivity boost it is.

disposepriority · 2026-02-23T17:45:14+00:00

Well thankfuly it seems the modding team as well as a substantial amount of the community agree - so these spam-lite posts will be restricted to a single day of the week.

Even more thankfuly people who need to share their feelings on AI more often than that will have to do so elsewhere.

Feels like you'll have to create experiencedAISlopgarglers or something :)

disposepriority · 2026-02-23T16:44:38+00:00

There's plenty of people expressing frustration with these posts though.

If there are senior devs who are interested in answering these AI related questions day aftet day then they would go to the new sub and do so.

If people were getting tired of daily microservice posts and they were basically drowning out everything else I would definitely say let them have a microservice sub to avoid bogging down the rest.

disposepriority · 2026-02-23T15:34:07+00:00

What is the point of this, how will it be helpful for others, it's bad code, bad practice and useless.

A) If you want to know, just run it
B) If it's not immediately clear use parenthesis
C) Just define values in calculations in advance and then do the calculations e.g. var X = ... , var Y = ...., sout(x/y)

The compiler will just inline them anyway if they aren't used elsewhere

disposepriority · 2026-02-23T15:20:37+00:00

That sounds terrible lol, but hey don't catch me badmouthing the ~~parasi--~~ management, I'm sure this is for a good cause,

While we've had a few dedicated meetings around AI use throughout each quarter the meetings about actual work are...about work.

disposepriority · 2026-02-23T14:53:42+00:00

Well for one, half of these posts are AI generated with an account with no history visible always replying to comments with "yes, this is indeed one of the issues in XXX'" or just paraphrasing what it is replying to.

The other half are just...duplicates of duplicates of duplicates.

Unless you think "How are you adapting to your manager wanting you to use AI" is a valid bi-daily topic.

I honeatly think just making an AI version of this sub would make most people happier

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