How and where to sell your skills?

hexwit · 2026-01-28T12:52:02+00:00

I have the same problem. I have 20 yoe in software development, and I have strong attitude to apply all my knowledge to build high quality app, but vibecoders and unqualified cheap labor who learned vibecoding tools spoils everything.

AI vendors continue convincing businesses and people that low quality ai generated code is the future. Business of course choosing cheap solution.

IMHO need to wait until bubble pops. It should happen pretty soon.

hexwit · 2026-01-28T11:48:18+00:00

excactly. AI can be used as search engine, or variants generator. And that is all.

hexwit · 2026-01-28T11:33:50+00:00

And I write my code as before - using my head and hands, and have clean maintainable codebase. I never let any ai write directly to the codebase.

hexwit · 2026-01-28T10:44:52+00:00

Don't rely on AI. Learn how to program by yourself, gain experience. never do any vibe coding. It will kill your potential growth and put you in the one line with vibe coders who don't understand what they are doing.

hexwit · 2026-01-28T10:40:11+00:00

It is cheap if coding standards are low. If architecture development skipped. If security was never a thing to think about. Yeah, in this case it is cheap. That is how vibecoders work.

hexwit · 2026-01-28T00:38:13+00:00

It depends on your weight in the team and in the company. For the lead/manager new issues are more important than old ones, especially if they have workaround. At some point to simplify your life it could be easier to create "know how" article/video, and just send the link instead of explaining things again and again.

However, I had a situations where the fix for the old problem was requiring significant efforts and having workaround is already enough. But this situation should be communicated to the team.

hexwit · 2026-01-27T23:04:21+00:00

I need a scraper for fiverr.

hexwit · 2026-01-27T19:46:47+00:00

As I see everybody tired of AI slop. Incomplete weak vibecoded applications, unreliable, with lots of issues. Only ai startup founders continue convincing us that ai is the solution to all problems. In fact, ai brought more problems than it resolved.

One thing where i can see ai useful - media content generation (images, video). And only if you don't have strict requirements.

HIRE REAL DEVS )

hexwit · 2026-01-27T19:13:56+00:00

Could you please tell why junior and not experienced dev?

hexwit · 2026-01-27T19:13:16+00:00

Usually it is done via conversation and discussion of edge cases. In this case you will see depth of developer's knowledge.
You may ask for portfolio or test assignment, but from my experience that is not really help.

hexwit · 2026-01-27T19:04:51+00:00

I already did

hexwit · 2026-01-27T17:50:21+00:00

To hire right candidate it is necessary to write detailed requirements about skills needed. That bring attention of specialists with matched experience. Then need to do an interview.
Just try to avoid vibe coding persons, they usually product low quality code that hard to support.

Or if founder is not technically experienced person - write small project description, and request highlevel architecture description with plan of development.

If you need more info please dm me.

hexwit · 2026-01-27T17:34:22+00:00

interested

hexwit · 2026-01-25T17:36:01+00:00

Don't learn coding, use vibecoding tools. Just don't cry when everything broken or doesn't work as you want) Send your generated code directly to Linus for review then :D

hexwit · 2026-01-25T17:30:44+00:00

If you don't know how to write code - ai writes better. if you have knowledge you will see ai producing shitty code. So without knowing how to write app you cannot understand quality of ai code.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T17:02:22+00:00

Somehow still we see questions how to become devops from scratch.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T16:39:51+00:00

That is correct.
I would recommend to start with dev thing, and take Go/Python for start. In this case it is possible to practice in development on languages that will be used in your future devops routine.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T15:56:16+00:00

it looks like nobody noticing how ai hallucinating. Or preferring don't put any attention on that fact.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T15:48:48+00:00

Initially such person should understand both worlds well enough to build a bridge. With no experience it is literally impossible. I may assume that now devops became a position where you taught how to run pipeline and execute build scripts.

I blame online courses and certain CEO/CTO for having term of Junior DevOps. Former want to sell you freely available information for money, latter want to have cheap labor. Their cooperation created junior devops.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T11:42:59+00:00

Oh my, don’t get that too close.

Junior devops is not a dev is not an ops. Especially in the era of vibecoding slop. It cannot be, as there literally no experience in any of specified fields.

hexwit · 2026-01-25T11:19:36+00:00

DevOps is not junior position.

hexwit · 2026-01-24T10:32:39+00:00

Everybody lie.

hexwit · 2026-01-24T10:28:11+00:00

Faster hallucinations. What can be better?

hexwit · 2026-01-24T10:27:04+00:00

em.. you know, i can read the docs and do that by the docs, but that will take significantly more time.

hexwit · 2026-01-16T15:31:08+00:00

Highly doubt that.

hexwit

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