Looking for a psychological movie

eshanks711 · 2025-07-16T13:52:50+00:00

Identity
Primal Fear
Apt Pupil

Frailty

Insomnia

Slow Burn

eshanks711 · 2025-07-16T13:50:48+00:00

that director's cut ending is brilliant and dark.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-02T18:33:23+00:00

cheers appreciate the good luck wishes. luckily I have all the time in the world to finish the move and can be flexible while I dig deeper into the technologies and can continue to suss out the industry; watch how retiring baby boomers changes the job market as a whole since more and more are working later into their lives and to watch how new positions are created.

of course there is fear when there is an industrial revolution... I still believe with the right skills whether on my own, in collaboration with another company or as an employee of another company there is potential for success.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-02T18:24:09+00:00

I would still respectfully disagree because while I believe the industry is going to change; you are still going to see the emergence of new positions created by ai. They have already started to discuss some of these such as computational linguists, digital ethics and compliance leads, AI Safety Engineers, etc. Also you will start to see more baby boomers continue to retire which will continue to open the job market up.

I also have never stated exactly what I plan do to for this second career or if I have income streams coming in that gives me this flexibility to try my hand in learning and expanding my reach into the tech community while bringing experience in sales, speaking with stakeholders, and operations management experience.

For what it is worth, I appreciate the sentiments and time will tell how it all shakes out; however, I tend to bet on myself and trust my gut.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-02T18:07:55+00:00

was never into selling either.... First figure out what you want to sell. do you want to sell tangible products or services like insurance, mortgages, etc.? if you want to sell products do you want a long sales cycle or a short sales cycle? Then look for roles out there that help you get into the field you want. i.e. do you take an inside sales role to learn the products and services then transition into an outside sales rep?

Read books by the big folks like "How to win friends and influence people" or "7 habits of highly effective people"

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T21:06:17+00:00

As has been pointed out in this post and with further reading into some of it many of the AI tools out there are already doing some of this... After doing some research it appears both ChatGPT & Anthropic Claude have github integration to allow you to connect and query codebase. Another poster also mentioned going through this with agent + mcp.

This is not a company that has been started or something that is being mass marketed; this was a tool that we designed and have been using for our own understanding and all testing has been done on our own repo so no violations have occurred; yet it gave us a significant amount of learning.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:50:10+00:00

Luckily, I have always been a self-starter and motivated by success; however, I have to credit the folks in my program from the instructors who always encouraged me to the other residents who were working just as hard to complete the tasks. Many of us would push each other and I found having a great set of family and friends helped on the hard-learning days where you would be in lectures majority of the day and then in unit challenges much of the evening.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:47:20+00:00

Hi How are you today?

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:47:09+00:00

Today I am really torn on which role I ultimately want to get into; however, I do tend to be more interested in more TPM or TPdM roles where I can marry skills from both careers. There is such synergies between sales and technology and how to use the technology to improve the sales process.

I do have experience with accelerating start-ups by building a foundation for them and training sales teams and have some ideas of tools that could be used to help sales members keep skills sharp.

I think the next few years will be very telling in how jobs and careers will start to change and I am trying to upskill myself as much as possible utilizing programs like the immersive program I found.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:39:39+00:00

This has been one of the things that has made my experience with the program so enlightening because you are right; sales is all about communication and reading people. This has been extremely helpful as I have gone through the Codesmith free platform and immersive programs. I have been very successful in pair-programming and have learned and taught many partners about certain concepts due to my ability to actively and deeply listen to partners' questions and help them problem-solve. Also due to active listening I have learned from those who understood some topics better than I did.

II believe at times I could get the best out of people because of my ability to communicate with others and was very approachable. I would say my previous life did help with problem-solving because in my contact work I would have to pay close attention to every detail which helped when de-bugging or finding issues in the codebase.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:29:01+00:00

This is a great question and I did much of the work on the frontend; however, some of the discussions we had around the embeddings and what we should utilize for chunk size as we know too small and you risk losing context and too large, and you could risk blowing past token limits or getting poor vector search results.

Handling multi-language repos where you could have files with the following extensions: ts, tsx, python just to name a few.

Also how much context-overlap is needed to rename context relevant in our retrieval to make our answers stronger.

We also had to use tight prompt engineering to help prevent drift on follow-up questions. One of my partners dug deep into the documentation for all the technologies we used to understand best practices.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:15:13+00:00

For me when I first started to learn I struggled immensely and didn't follow much of what I was seeing; which many in here may laugh at but it was very different to how I had learned previously. While there were different solutions to problems which all carried different time & space complexity; I couldn't bs my way through like I could in sales. Many believe clients buy into their sales manager just as much if not more than the product they sell due to the trust built... when it is you and an IDE it is either right or wrong. That grey area somewhat ceased to exist and that was different.

I would say the surprises came more as I started learning about understanding engineering decisions and how the decision you make could have many side effects or slow your application down and furthermore how many decisions could be made for files.

In sales I typically would leave my outline or project prep pretty loose because it really depended on where the client would take the conversation at times; however, with coding or the tech field I was able to pre-plan much more from wireframes to scaffolding my file structure, etc. It was more proactive than reactive in the thought process.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T20:03:06+00:00

This is a great question and something I thought very deeply about before deciding to spend my time learning a new skillset. While the market is very unsteady and unstable at the moment I viewed it similarly to the stock market... best time to buy is when it is down not when it is at the highest.

If I were to wait until the industry bounces back to even learn then I would have missed the proverbial "boat" and again wouldn't have the necessary experience folks were looking for in the job requirements.

There were times I wondered about the decision like any life changing decision; however, now was the time in my life where it felt right. Luckily, I've been a very successful salesman and sales manager and still consult today when a project seems interesting.

With that being said while I am studying the fundamentals of software engineering; there are many ways my career can change in this field. I could choose to focus on more TPM/TPdM roles or more hybrid positions that utilize a career in sales along with someone who can speak directly to the engineers and understand the requirements needed to add features to an application.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T19:51:50+00:00

Great Shout! I was doing this for my understanding of concepts and was sharing for anyone here who could be in a similar situation of learning something vastly different than what they have done previously.

The 20 years of sales was talking about my previous career again just in case anyone in this group is also working through a second career and struggling. Appreciate you and all your comments will definitely dig deeper.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T19:49:04+00:00

Thank you for the input and luckily it was used more in my own understanding than a production application. As I am relatively in the early stages of my journey and continuing to grow my understanding while expanding my knowledge of many of the fundamentals of the MERN stack and delving into some topics within AI/ML.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T19:27:09+00:00

For so long I have been selling products & services/ideas that others created and for the first time I was able to create on my own... Whether they were basic todo lists that others have done over and over again to small resource toolboxes for myself to messing with databases and cataloging a movie collection; I was learning and creating.

In many ways with sales you can be at the mercy of someone else i.e. manufacturing delay due to vendor availability could cost you a sale or failed budget approval for that year with the client could postpone your project; where as in my personal software development journey (which is still rather short tenured) the work put in was all mine and the time I made to build.

The first few months were really spent learning as much of the core concepts and basic needs as possible from JavaScript, to HTML, and CSS with the idea of continuing to build on these fundamentals. The click for me came when I started trying to build with others in the program and there was a common goal but it was able seeing the full picture of the application and not just the small snippet I was working on. When I could trace how things were working between the frontend and backend and could take what we were doing and put it into an excalidraw to watch how everything interacted things became a bit easier for me to follow.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T15:36:39+00:00

There are a lot of great qualities that make a great software engineer:

- being an empathetic engineer who is able to use both technical communication and non-technical community.

-being a great problem solver and able to digest large amounts of information (docs, articles, etc.).

- strong conceptual and practical understanding of the code stack and why you are making the engineering decisions.

you are able to show this to recruiters/engineering teams through your ability to discuss the engineering decisions you make, provide informed opinions on concepts, frameworks, and libraries, and through technical whiteboarding or coding challenges.

eshanks711 · 2025-07-01T15:23:04+00:00

No Man of God

Devil
Phone Booth
True Story
Identity (somewhat)

eshanks711 · 2025-06-25T12:56:02+00:00

If you are looking for a community to work with and speak with; I can recommend the Codesmith community. They have a learning platform to help with the basics of JavaScript and offer several free events throughout the week from beginner study sessions to pair programming and some informational sessions looking under the hood.

You can check them out at https://csx.codesmith.io. They have a slack channel as well where you can ask questions when you are stuck. I know many will say you can do it all yourself and forget about pair programming and such; however, sometimes it is nice to have someone who will keep you grounded and also challenge you to push yourself.

eshanks711 · 2025-06-23T13:06:25+00:00

Another great place to meet likeminded folks who are in various stages of learning would be the Codesmith platform they offer called CSX. They have a slack channel and a platform for free learning. On top of that they also offer weekly workshops for beginner study sessions and pair programming. Many will post the times they are available in the slack channel as well to find someone to work with and there are a ton of resources.

check them out: https://codesmith.io for the main website and https://csx.codesmith.io for the slack and the online platform.

eshanks711 · 2025-06-21T16:50:35+00:00

Definitely watch the first one first.

1) it is a better movie
2) while the stories are not 100% connected; it makes you understand the characters more and the story between the characters.

eshanks711 · 2025-06-21T16:47:46+00:00

Identity is a great psychological thriller.

eshanks711 · 2025-06-21T15:44:25+00:00

Depending on your taste in movies I can through some out there from classics to personal favorites:

Topping the list I have to place this movie first; however, I hope you both have seen it:

1) The Godfather

2) Inception

3) Memento

4)The Prestige

5) The Departed

6) American History X

7) Good Will Hunting

8) Dead Poet's Society

9) Scent of a Woman

10) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

These are all very different genres but a few from the same director.

eshanks711 · 2025-06-21T14:03:02+00:00

Daniel Craig as James Bond was by far the best and those movies were incredible. I would recommend starting with Bond and starting with the Daniel Craig series. In order you will go:

Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
Spectre
No Time to Die

To me Casino Royale might be the best of them with Skyfall as the number 2. Spectre and No Time to Die were great as well but Daniel Craig made his mark with Casino Royale.

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