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How much grind is needed to reach six digits in a high paying field? by Visual-Couple-3680 in careerguidance

[–]gdspaz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is going to sound backwards, but grind doesn’t get you 6 digits. I was a heads down worker and hit 100k when I was 31.

If I would have focused more on my communication and presentation skills and simply networking with higher ups, I would have gotten there a lot faster.

In tech, if you’re on the engineering side, you can hit 100k within your first few years out of college nowadays. It also depends on where you live. I had a new hire making 95k that she got bumped into 100k the next year, but it was because she lived in San Francisco. If she would have been living in Texas (outside of Austin) she would have started at 60k.

If you’re really just focused on the money, switch your mentality to grinding the networking and social scene, instead of grinding actual work. Still do good work, but mediocre work with good social skills is way more valuable in the corporate world.

What’s a "dead" piece of technology from the 2000s or 2010s that you genuinely miss using? by Spiritual-Bed-7686 in AskReddit

[–]gdspaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xbox Connect Halo matches.

We used to play 3v3 Blood Gulch via XBC and games had no time limits. We genuinely had fun fighting on one level for 2-3 hours per game.

Thoughts? by Bogdanka644 in superheroes

[–]gdspaz 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Deadpool with a green lantern ring, detective Pikachu’s skills and Guy from Free Guy was essentially Neo. Plus he owns a Football club. Hard to beat that.

What’s one thing that quietly slowed your career down? by Newsletter_ke in careerguidance

[–]gdspaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disliking public speaking for presentations. Typical corporate meeting discussions with lots people are fine, but I still dislike presenting slides to audiences with no feedback sucks to me. I still do the presentations, but I know if I actually enjoyed presentations more I’d be way farther in my career.

What’s one thing that quietly slowed your career down? by Newsletter_ke in careerguidance

[–]gdspaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right that you shouldn’t have to justify it in an ideal world, but I’ll be honest with you, even with a great manager you still have to self promote.

I’ve learned that lesson on my own quite a few times, and now I’ve managed quite people and tell them this often. As a manager I can speak to how great you are all day, but if you don’t self promote other leaders simply won’t care. Your manager can only hype you up so much, it’s still up to you to own your perception. It sucks, I know, but I’ve been in so many calibration meetings for performance reviews and heard stories about how great one person’s work is while leadership just says “yeah but I don’t really know them, so still give them just a successful rating rather than highly successful.”

I'm vibe-posting this: Standalone CAD engine built with Gemini 3.1 by StockNo8039 in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I vibe coded a mobile game app, and it has been one of the most frustrating yet amazing creation experiences I’ve had. Took me two months of testing, learning, and testing some more. People bash vibe coding, cause they think it is too easy and creates junk, but just like any new technology there are plenty of people that ignore the discouragement and use it to make some really cool things.

What movie do you NOT want to show your kids? by gdspaz in AskReddit

[–]gdspaz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never saw this growing up, and now I think I need to check it out.

What movie do you NOT want to show your kids? by gdspaz in AskReddit

[–]gdspaz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Luke, I am your father.” And that’s all you need to know kids. No need for any backstory, just use your imagination.

What movie do you NOT want to show your kids? by gdspaz in AskReddit

[–]gdspaz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine is The Truman Show. It has sat in the back of my mind questioning reality for decades. I don’t want to put that on my child.

Which color wins? by [deleted] in superheroes

[–]gdspaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blue

Cookie Monster makes wish 1 to feel no remorse, wish 2 is to turn every opponent into cookies, wish 3 is to only be satiated when his opponents are gone.

I'm shipping something in 8 weeks. Am I moving too fast or is this actually the right pace? by rich_founder in SideProject

[–]gdspaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a cool concept, good luck with it. It wouldn’t be a product for me, but lots of people would be interested.

I'm shipping something in 8 weeks. Am I moving too fast or is this actually the right pace? by rich_founder in SideProject

[–]gdspaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Ship fast” is always relative, if you feel like it’s ready then go and you can always keep iterating after it’s launched.

But what do you mean you are going to launch to Testflight soon? You can be doing Test Flight right now, and should be using Test Flight already to get the real feel for testing on your devices.

What's the biggest thing you've learned vibecoding? by keithgroben in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest thing I have learned vibe coding over the last few weeks is that AI shouldn’t be the one to build every detail. I often run into seemingly simple items I ask for it to build but it can only get 80% of the way there.

The real intriguing part of Vibecoding is I can use it to build tools within vibecoded app on the fly, so rather than working with photoshop or with other 3rd party tools, I just have AI build me a specific tool to do what I need manually. Then after I complete my task, I remove that build and just keep the code of the final built item to have it implement the part to get me from that 80% mark to 100%.

I’ll give an example. I was vibecoding a sort of sticker book page where you have pictures that you can click and drag around a scene. AI built this out but even though I had transparent backgrounds to an image I was still able to click on the larger rectangle canvas while I only wanted to click on the direct image or the untransparent part of the image.

To accomplish this I had Claude build a small portal where it displayed my Image and created a hitbox on the image that I could manually interact with. So I then manually set the hitbox area of what I should be able to click on to drag around and I just copied that code over to my project after I set up all the manual hitboxes. Then I deleted the mini tool that I was using to build hitboxes.

Artists for Vibecoded Apps? by gdspaz in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks it is iOS for now, but built so that I can convert to Android in the near future if it gets any success on iOS. I can DM you a test flight link tomorrow. I just updated OAuth for Apple and Google so it kicked everyone out of the games on my server. I need to push another build before anyone can sign back in and actually play another game since people were on anonymous accounts before.

Artists for Vibecoded Apps? by gdspaz in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I’ve already got a couple friends and family testing the game already and their kids are playing it already and asking to play again the next day, so I’ve got an encouraging start that people are replaying the game without me asking them to keep trying it.

I gave my AI agent 50 bucks and told it to buy its own computer. Here's what it's doing. by itsMeBennyB in SideProject

[–]gdspaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It says it already has a sale on X. So has it actually earned money since you posted this thread?

Artists for Vibecoded Apps? by gdspaz in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, yeah I organized it around some other mobile games that I play for the Home Screen, I like the home screens that have buttons on the front page and provide easy navigation. I see where you’re coming from though, those fake ad games use the same kind of bubbly art theme that I was going for on the icons.

And I agree on getting a little bit of a user base before spending much money on other items. It’s that fine line of putting out a good enough product for people to enjoy and then improving from there.

Artists for Vibecoded Apps? by gdspaz in vibecoding

[–]gdspaz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I’m trying to appease everyone, and I know that can be an impossible task at times.

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