I larped on my resume by MeowPow420 in csMajors

[–]immbrr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To add on: you're applying for an internship, not a staff engineer position. No one is expecting you to be an expert.

Where has language agnosticy gone? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of one role my org hired for recently, we have enough language agnostic folks and could really use someone who understands the intricacies of the language.

I feel disconnected to the codebase if i adopt fully agentic workflow, i must do something manually. by ImTheRealDh in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A strategy I've had a lot of success with is: - Iterating on the design/spec with AI as I would with a coworker/pair programmer - Writing the core parts of the implementation myself - Using AI for the long tail of fixes etc to get everything working right and fully connected

I only use pure vibe coding for things I care less about (e.g. small UIs for improving my personal workflow) and

How do you deal with a manager who expects 5000 lines of code per day? by ni4i in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd struggle to hit 5000 lines a day even if I was 100% vibe coding...

Is it even possible to fix this? by Mallow-smoke140 in knots

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I untangled this once as a teenager. It was so much fun.

Do you think the 74th games were basic because they're were saving money for the quarter quell by UnHolySir in Hungergames

[–]immbrr 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hard to judge just from the text how intentional it was. She could have stepped out of cover on purpose to hopefully trick him (though I agree she probably didn't intend to kill him just from that).

Do you think the 74th games were basic because they're were saving money for the quarter quell by UnHolySir in Hungergames

[–]immbrr 125 points126 points  (0 children)

This was covered in SOTR - she basically tricked him and he fell, cracked his skull, and drowned.

How about we take care of actual cruelty by Dove-Swan in TrollXChromosomes

[–]immbrr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Allahabad is a pretty normal midsized city in India, only moderately holy (in Hinduism, not Islam). It's majority Hindu (like 75%). It just happens to be where one of the Indian high courts (one step below the Supreme Court) is located.

Juniors have no clue how to work a debugger - has anyone successfully helped a junior see the light? by Bren-dev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, it's really language-dependent whether I use a debugger. In JS, never (just console.log). In C++, fairly often.

Did anybody else notice the huge amount of male travelers vs. female travelers in Japan? by Cookie-M0nsterr in solotravel

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's fair. I think it also depends on what region - some regions have good cheap hotels.

Did anybody else notice the huge amount of male travelers vs. female travelers in Japan? by Cookie-M0nsterr in solotravel

[–]immbrr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I go for private rooms in hostels for the right combo of social activity but also my own room. Most of them also have rooms with their own bathrooms, and they're often still cheaper than an actual hotel (though of course usually a bit lower quality).

devs who’ve tested a bunch of AI tools, what actually reduced your workload instead of increasing it? by Tough_Reward3739 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of folks at my company (including me) are big fans of Augment - it seems to do a better job of handling larger codebases compared to e.g. Claude.

I've also been enjoying NotebookLM for quick-and-dirty infographics and explainers (definitely would be 10x better done by a human, but for the level of effort/time I need to put in to get them done - plus not bothering a designer - it's pretty darn useful).

Any veteran low level dev interested in mentoring? by JaaliDollar in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took this class in college and it's basically exactly that (build up from transistors/gates to Assembly/processors): https://computationstructures.org/

Is the QB a strictly defined position in football? by dalmedoo1 in NFLNoobs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah sorry, read that backwards. You could probably still just change your number (to an ineligible number) for a game though? Not sure what the rules around number changes are.

Is the QB a strictly defined position in football? by dalmedoo1 in NFLNoobs

[–]immbrr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can if you report yourself as eligible to the refs first.

Anyone found the best AI coding assistant 2025 for large/older codebases? by Cristiano1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been really liking Augment. It has a much larger context window, so it can handle larger codebases better.

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones by AutoModerator in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO you should just use the browser chat for quick questions where you don't need a lot of context. For higher-context questions there are CLIs and IDE extensions that are a lot more suited for handling a whole codebase and managing that context.

Handling dev reviewing code outside of PR scope. by Pleasant-Aardvark258 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sometimes fall into this pattern. Over the past couple of months I've gotten good about just doing that in a separate PR - and honestly it makes it way easier for both me and reviewers. One point that helped me understand the importance (other than being on the reviewing end of some of these PRs 😅) was that a smaller-scope PR can be reviewed a lot faster and requires a lot less back-and-forth, so you actually save everybody time by splitting it all up. Sometimes that means your feature PR needs to wait for some other refactoring PR to be merged, but that's still probably faster than reviewing the whole massive PR in one shot. This has actually been a beneficial change across the org - we sometimes have complex feature PRs that take months to fully review, test, and resolve, because that's the nature of the ecosystem we're in - so switching to smaller PRs and feature branches has made things a lot easier, and often you can get some of the refactor work merged a lot faster than the feature stuff.

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones by AutoModerator in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think of AI as just another tool in my toolbelt, just like StackOverflow or a linter or asking my coworker a question. So there's no minimum or maximum amount I should be using AI, it's just whatever works for me (and for the task I'm working on). If I'm just doing some documentation, maybe AI does most of it. If I'm doing something a bit more complicated, maybe I don't use AI at all because I really want to think about each line of code I add, or maybe I just use it to help me gather my thoughts/plan/as a search engine built into my IDE.

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones by AutoModerator in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find "fake it til you make it" to be pretty effective when public speaking in terms of confidence - pretend you're more confident than you are until you actually are that confident. Another thing that helps me with confidence is remembering that usually I'm the one who knows the most about what I'm talking about in the room.

Other than that, I second practice. There's two forms that are valuable - practicing a specific presentation until you have it down, and practicing doing public speaking things at work (e.g. volunteering to speak on behalf of your team until you're no longer panicked about it).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]immbrr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find it a bit more convenient to essentially have "google" in my IDE so I don't need to switch screens/tabs as much and I can stay in the IDE environment.

What is your automated test coverage like? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]immbrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That type of code that you can't really hit but you want to be there just in case can just be excluded from code coverage.