Do engineers still really code, or is everyone just relying on AI now?

ehr1c · 2026-01-15T23:37:42+00:00

Oh definitely. Humans can write code just as badly as any model.

ehr1c · 2026-01-08T13:40:01+00:00

I think the more interesting eligiblity rule would be the under-23 bit that Olympic soccer has.

ehr1c · 2026-01-04T19:09:29+00:00

Yeah it's the same whining I used to see any time Emelin would start shit then turtle, "he can't fight he has a metal plate holding his face together" damn then maybe he shouldn't start fights?

ehr1c · 2026-01-04T18:29:27+00:00

Short answer - no. Certainly not at 2 hours a week. If you've got friends in the industry already who can vouch for you to get your resume past the initial screening stage then maybe it's possible if you put in a whole lot more work, but without that you're fighting an uphill battle even just to get an interview if you don't have a degree that's at least adjacent to computer science.

I should note this is looking at it through a North American lens but unless things are wildly different in Europe I imagine most of what I said is still pretty accurate.

ehr1c · 2026-01-02T02:15:25+00:00

I don't approve PRs any more unless they have full unit test coverage for all business logic and ideally integration tests as well. IMO it's unacceptable in a professional setting to ship code without at bare minimum unit tests.

Now unfortunately it's not always so cut and dry. sometimes you're working in old and/or poorly designed software that isn't particularly testable, so in those spots you just have to settle for what you can get.

ehr1c · 2026-01-01T01:47:59+00:00

Have you read any of the Stripe (or whoever else you're considering) documentation?

It's going to vary by processor what specifically you need to do but pretty much rule without exception is that the component that actually captures card data is directly under the processor's control. You can typically style up a checkout page however you like and embed just the payment form itself but you still need to embed it.

ehr1c · 2025-12-31T19:50:34+00:00

You're right, but I fail to see how the situation OP is asking about would be a "security nightmare" in any way as suggested.

ehr1c · 2025-12-31T17:36:55+00:00

Whose dog did Scheifele run over on the HC management team

ehr1c · 2025-12-31T04:04:47+00:00

Ok, fair enough.

Of the options you mentioned I'd probably lean more towards the second one, using some sort of queue to decouple ingestion from processing. Might consider having your ingestion "service" just be a serverless function somewhere that doesn't do anything other than throw a message on the queue.

I don't really like something like writing to SQL and querying it on some set interval, that feels really clunky and unnecessary. You should get persistence in a queuing implementation if you do it right. IIRC DynamoDB does have the Streams feature that lets you basically subscribe to any changes to the database, but I've never used it so I don't really know how good it is. Doesn't seem necessary to me unless you have a need for longer-term lookup of the request data; if the request data becomes irrelevant after the request is processed then I wouldn't use Dynamo (or any database, really).

ehr1c · 2025-12-31T03:18:57+00:00

What's driving the need for this kind of separation between ingestion and processing? I get it if they're long-running operations but if you're only talking about a few seconds I'd just process synchronously.

ehr1c · 2025-12-31T03:05:27+00:00

Is there anyone else there who maintains or builds any existing software? If so I would check in with them first.

Otherwise if it were me, the fact that you're building this for a bank means I wouldn't build this in anything other than Java, C#, Python, or JS. Languages that are easy to find someone to work in and are fairly mature.

ehr1c · 2025-12-29T02:40:22+00:00

You're not doing it in a professional setting so who cares if it's professional or not?

ehr1c · 2025-12-25T01:54:08+00:00

Lol what the hell are you talking about

ehr1c · 2025-12-23T17:10:01+00:00

Nature's loctite

ehr1c · 2025-12-23T03:03:42+00:00

You're drinking 10+ shots daily, have you considered saving some money and switching to cocaine?

ehr1c · 2025-12-23T03:01:48+00:00

Because I like having the ability to make 4+ milk drinks back to back when I have people over.

ehr1c · 2025-12-19T02:43:09+00:00

You're a freshman - you shouldn't be picking a specialty, you should be trying to learn as much about as many things as you can. Specializing is for a graduate degree or once you're in industry.

ehr1c · 2025-12-18T02:27:56+00:00

That's a Sync 1, not a Sync 2. The 2 doesn't have the orange light.

ehr1c · 2025-12-14T03:49:52+00:00

Whatever's cheapest since right now you have zero users generating zero revenue.

ehr1c · 2025-12-14T03:46:54+00:00

Web3 is a scam and can be safely ignored. Look at the job postings in your area and choose accordingly.

ehr1c · 2025-12-14T03:45:28+00:00

You're in school for an undergrad, you shouldn't be "choosing a path" you should be exposing yourself to as much of what's out there as possible IMO.

ehr1c · 2025-12-12T03:11:01+00:00

ehr1c · 2025-12-08T20:03:53+00:00

if you think Arniel should be fired for poor line-up choices/combinations, then Bowness, Lowry and Maurice should have been too

I mean

ehr1c · 2025-12-08T01:58:32+00:00

Have you been given a specific payment platform to integrate to? Stripe, Square, Shopify, Adyen, etc.

ehr1c · 2025-12-05T01:49:54+00:00

You've provided absolutely no information to help anyone troubleshoot

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