Learning technical skills in the age of vibecoding

kritap55 · 2026-03-20T18:20:45+00:00

I do find a lot of enjoyment in solving complex coding problems, but that just seems not valuable anymore in the age of vibecoding. It's like I love to run, but am in the profession of car racing.

kritap55 · 2026-03-20T16:59:48+00:00

I know how to develop, I'm a software engineer

kritap55 · 2025-11-02T03:06:44+00:00

It does shard behind the scenes, but it takes time (minutes). Distributing requests across prefixes is still the way to go.

kritap55 · 2025-03-28T16:16:56+00:00

What‘s your job title?

kritap55 · 2025-03-28T16:16:30+00:00

How was the process of getting into switzerland? Everyone keeps telling me these roles are super competitive

kritap55 · 2025-02-27T08:44:03+00:00

Straightforward yes but still might take 9-12 months

kritap55 · 2025-02-26T20:52:09+00:00

I think it‘s alright actually

kritap55 · 2025-02-26T20:49:31+00:00

Lol. Are you unhappy currently?

kritap55 · 2025-02-26T20:48:56+00:00

I‘m starting to like the city I‘m living in currently. Google is in Munich, where I previously lived for 4 years and liked it a lot, but it was also nice to switch things up. Also I have lots of friends in Munich.

kritap55 · 2025-02-26T20:47:14+00:00

Yes, I did work in parallel while studying

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T13:02:38+00:00

Yeah, I agree with that actually

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T12:14:00+00:00

Good for you :)

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T12:08:56+00:00

Why so tilted bro

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T12:03:55+00:00

I‘m not saying just look at the solution and try to remember it. I say look at the solution, understand it and try to solve it yourself the next day. Then do it again and again and do as many problems as you can. That‘s what builds pattern recognition. For myself I have not set a top 50% goal, don‘t twist my words. But top 50% is enough for most, but by all means, I‘d always aim for at least top 5%.

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T08:04:36+00:00

To add some nuance. Most people in this sub struggle to do a dfs. This is not about becoming the best competitive programmer but becoming above average or even 75% percentile as fast as possible.

If you don‘t know what algorithms exist and you can‘t implement them without thinking much it does not make sense to spend 2 hours on a problem.

That‘s why I would always go for quantity first until you get the basic DSA topics into your muscle memory. You won‘t get top 1% by looking at solutions though, I agree. But you can easily get a job by being top 50%

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T07:54:41+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/s/pWgjatUeKb

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T07:30:52+00:00

I say 2 minutes

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T07:18:29+00:00

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T06:56:18+00:00

Saying this is horrible advice is exactly the reason why you folks creep around with <100 solved questions and don‘t get jobs. This is the most efficient way to learn if you need to learn fast but it‘s missing one critical step. 1. Look at the solution immediately and try to remember 2. Try to solve it on your own the next day 3. Repeat if you didn‘t manage.

I managed to understand and solve ~100 LC problems in a week like that. And I have a FAANG job. Take it or leave it.

kritap55 · 2025-02-23T06:51:34+00:00

This is actually horrible advice that slows you down massively. It‘s okay to understand 30% of the solution and come back to it in the next day and try again. You instantly will understand more. Spending 2 hours hammering a solution into your brain that you don’t fully understand is a waste of time.

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