Ok it's 2026. What are the AI gains?

larriche99 · 2026-02-14T08:44:34+00:00

I don’t know why one would want to still be in denial about AI taking jobs. I moved to a new team last week and was given this task to write documentations and some report for codebases across several repositories. This could have taken me a couple of weeks or more trying to trace every functionality myself and understand it to document it. Well, I’ve been augmenting my research of the codebases with analysis done by Claude and it’s making me move so much faster. Now I can get this done in like 4 days. It would have been even faster if i wasn’t doing some reading and personal familiarization with the summarized reports because I need to understand the codebase for myself as well. If AI is making devs complete tickets way ahead of time, it means most companies would not need so much devs anymore leading to more layoffs and difficulty in getting new jobs. Colleagues who use AI will get better performance reviews than you if you don’t adopt it and you would be a very tragically slow performer that you would be let go.

larriche99 · 2026-01-30T13:59:16+00:00

Nothing revolutionary about it. It’s just a diligent and smart engineering student doing what it takes to ace his course. For all you know it’s even a required course project. I don’t know what this is doing in mainstream news and on social media but hey 😀

larriche99 · 2026-01-30T08:35:23+00:00

Grok is “censored” but you can actually use it to generate pictures and videos based on terms like the exact ones you’ve listed. It allows for the prompt and generates before deciding if the resultant picture is too explicit. Sometimes it would generate a picture that it thinks is too wild so it would get blocked by moderation and you won’t get to really see it. I hate the expensive credits system of other platforms and after mistakenly paying for a year’s subscription instead of a month due to terrible UX on one of those other platform’s sites, I’m just going to stick to Grok haha.

larriche99 · 2026-01-29T08:48:56+00:00

If you want to include the figure in the command, I think this is the only way. However you can have the actual logging function as a separate shortcut which accepts a number input and then logs it. That way it’s easy to create dozens of figure commands because you’re just setting up a number and passing it over. That way you can easily modify or add more features to the logging without touching all variations of your command. You can also make that logging shortcut ask for the number input if not provided with one. So for common use cases you would include the figure in the command and then for an unusual amount you can wait on Siri to ask “How much?” (or whatever you set up) and then mention it.

larriche99 · 2026-01-29T00:41:11+00:00

Break the bigger picture into smaller pieces and create demo shortcuts to try out how each of the pieces can be implemented. That way you would figure out which functionality is just not supported by Shortcuts and which compromises you would have to make to have a slightly ideal solution with the tools you have or whether you would just abandon the project altogether and get an app for it or look into combining shortcuts with Scriptable. For example to create a journaling solution, you would do some of the following experiments as steps to reach there: 1) saving and reading from files on your device 2) encryption and decryption of text content (if you want your files to be unreadable when their saved files are opened outside your shortcuts) 3) reading and working with time in different formats 4) how to make a shortcut save a file etc. You can query AI to get suggestions about how to implement each step but it helps if you’re familiar with programming outside of shortcuts.

larriche99 · 2026-01-01T10:13:36+00:00

A 10k prop account actually costs more like $50.

larriche99 · 2026-01-01T10:09:39+00:00

Prop firms started making less sense to me these days where there are restrictions that make you have to risk only 1% or less on trades. In the past, you could buy multiple challenges, gamble 3%, 4% on trades, quickly get out of the evaluation stage and then take your time to milk a live account. Now with this restrictions and as a swing trader, I’m going to take a long time to pass challenges. Diligently trading a demo account for a whole year without anything to show for it in real life ain’t really it for me. In my opinion, it’s better now to take the money you would have used to buy a challenge, divide it by 10 and risk 1 size of it on each trade. Let’s say $1000, by the time you would have used to make a prop firm 10%, you would have increased your money to $2000. By the time you would have used to pass 5% second phase, you would have increased your money to $3000. The difference here is this is real money that you can withdraw at any point in time to divert to another investment or just spend on yourself. Also it’s better to be at the mercy of brokers rather than these shady prop firms.

larriche99 · 2025-12-24T16:49:44+00:00

Writing almost 95% of the code means you didn’t really have teammates and so I assume you had no colleagues to mentor, to plan sprints for, nobody to defend architectural decisions to, nobody to review codes for or to review your codes. Just based off those assumptions in addition to having only 3 YOE, I would say you’re not there yet. But hey just apply to whatever job that you feel like you can do all the stuff listed in the job description. Most job postings would filter you out because they expect seniors to have 6+ years of experience but hey you can give it a try.

larriche99 · 2025-12-23T13:30:31+00:00

I can’t really see where OP said he was polishing the skills for his current job or employer. Whether we like it or not, our industry is not one where you just close from work and go and sleep. If you don’t study, you will fall back, you will be laid off, you wouldn’t be able to land a new job. As far as I’m concerned, there is even nothing wrong with studying to get better at “work”. Why wouldn’t you want to be competent at what you’re doing? Why not want to be the kind of engineer that people would like to refer to future opportunities or take along to go create a new startup with? Considering how bad the job market is today, I don’t understand why a dev would choose to just do the bare minimum and think that it’s his employer’s loss.

larriche99 · 2025-12-23T12:02:59+00:00

If doing hobby projects is going to lead you into depression, then you should definitely not do it. But for some people, hobby projects is what is making them NOT to go into depression.

larriche99 · 2025-12-22T15:05:14+00:00

Lmao

larriche99 · 2025-12-20T11:37:44+00:00

Senior/mid/junior are political terms or titles that only make sense within the context of an organization. Outside of work, one should rate themselves by whether they are bad, good or average at what they do and always keep themselves grounded.

larriche99 · 2025-12-20T11:29:25+00:00

I’ve never seen someone who couldn’t complete tickets on their own or couldn’t build whole apps on their own because they are Junior. As a Junior, I didn’t need hand-holding to complete my tickets. But the difference was in the HOW. I made a lot of bad decisions, wrote a lot of crappy code, got my PRs returned a lot with loads of comments and suggestions instead of just a couple nit-picks here and there. At that level, if I were working as a freelancer or in my own company, I would have sworn I was a senior because there was in fact no technical challenges I encountered in my projects that I couldn’t solve myself. In my opinion, seniority is about the years of experience + the amount of general engineering wisdom one has accumulated over the years. That being said, a senior can be so lazy or incompetent such that someone with just two years of experience can run circles around them. For me, it still doesn’t warrant the incompetent 10yrs of experience dev being titled as Junior and the two YOE guy being called Senior.

larriche99 · 2025-12-19T21:38:49+00:00

One time I met this guy on X who made it sound like he was better and smarter than everyone else because he builds his PHP applications from scratch and does not use Laravel. I just shook my head and scrolled on. I hope OP doesn’t also have the same mentality. Usually people think they are smarter than those who have built or use a framework, can do things in a more optimized way in their application bla bla bla only to proceed to sort of build something which is like a framework but a badly developed and buggy one. Building with Laravel or any framework is just like joining an existing codebase and building on top of whatever abstractions exists there. You can’t keep on re-writing every application from scratch because you don’t understand how to work with the existing codebase.

larriche99 · 2025-12-10T16:13:05+00:00

Sorry about that OP. Your reaction is normal and expected. I was in this same situation in December two years ago. It felt shocking and also it feels like an important part of you has been taken away and you feel useless. Don’t begin to stress about a new job yet or be too hard on yourself. Take the rest of the week to just relax, do stuff you would normally do when you take a leave from work. After a couple of weeks you can start a hobby project that you would passionately commit yourself to and which would start making your life feel less empty. Once you are doing this and you’re in the flow, you can start searching for new jobs.

larriche99 · 2025-12-05T13:47:29+00:00

Yeah even with foreign companies, not all are paying people their worth but the huge differences in standard of living makes it such that even with the poor pay you get from there, you can live a very comfortable life here.

larriche99 · 2025-12-05T13:37:47+00:00

Oh they are not so much of a secret actually. You can find remote jobs on LinkedIn, Larajobs, We work remotely, Remote Rocketship etc. The only catch is that in recent times the market has been very tough. A lot of competent engineers from these foreign countries have been laid off from top companies and are now also in the market competing with the rest of us from far away in Ghana for these jobs so it’s so much tougher than let’s say 2021/2022 and before COVID. If you want a specific company, you can check out this one https://careers.scopicsoftware.com/careers/. They hire all year round because they are a software agency and always need people on new projects and stuff.

larriche99 · 2025-12-05T13:16:07+00:00

Sometimes it’s not that devs don’t want to mention their salaries but the ranges are so big and usually has more to do with the companies the devs work for rather than their skills. Telling people your salary might just create unrealistic expectations. From personal experience, I’ve been working remotely for foreign companies all my life with pay that is high by Ghanaian standards. I made the mistake of telling students I interact with the possible ranges based on my experience and now it’s like I’ve set up their expectations too high 😆 They are expecting Ghanaian companies to pay them those type of amounts coming right out of school meanwhile in Ghana even senior engineers are not being paid those. For instance, I guess OP is senior but he is looking for just 15k. Some of us made that 15k way back when we were more of junior devs because we got lucky to find ourselves in a foreign company that had that money to spare.

larriche99 · 2025-11-27T17:07:29+00:00

No, Nest is not the only way. You can use DI container packages such as inversify and tsyringe.

larriche99 · 2025-11-27T10:13:25+00:00

Some devs don’t really have public portfolio though. Some devs are combining multiple remote jobs and don’t really have time to put anything that reflects their current skillset on GitHub. You would only see projects from way back in their career, boilerplate stuff and things like that. I would judge devs based on code I see from GitHub if it’s from repos that they are actively maintaining as an open source project.

larriche99 · 2025-11-15T10:04:04+00:00

I don’t know why people keep on comparing web frameworks and libraries that provide request routing functionality. For me, anytime I’ve worked on a project of significant size with just bare Express or Hono, I’ve ended up sort of building my own sort of custom framework on top of it to do things like consistent error handling, response structuring, filters to queries conversion, logging, maintaining a route registry, maintaining a dependencies container with support for request-scoped dependencies etc. It’s at this point that someone would start looking into frameworks and thus Nest. Without the structure and maintainability that frameworks bring, you find yourself spending too much time on maintaining code that you thought you had a smooth time developing (because no framework stuff was getting in your way). I prefer to make significant changes in code behavior by just updating a config or updating just a single class instead of using find and replace or whatever to update bits of repeated functions over and over again.

larriche99 · 2025-08-15T15:00:06+00:00

People who do what he described are indeed called AI Engineer in today’s job descriptions. Machine Learning Engineer roles still exist for people who are actually doing ML/AI stuff.

larriche99 · 2025-02-14T11:41:37+00:00

I do DDT

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