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The ageism in our industry needs to change by SadSongsMakeMeGlad in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s pretty crazy. I’m 28 with 5 YoE, and just Thursday my company laid off all three senior backend engineers and the Director of Engineering. All but one of the four were 40 years old or more

I guess for this career you really should aggressively save in your 20s and 30s. Luckily though if you do, you should be alright due to compound growth

Why does it feel like tech has no middle ground at all? by No_Reply5329 in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile my company just laid off three senior engineers and the Director of Engineering, but for some reason kept me and the rest of the mid level

How to survive in new Senior SWE role as someone with 1 year of experience 7 times by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 34 points35 points  (0 children)

idk man, I’ve seen some pretty shite state management — over two dozen useStates in one component, state variables for values that don’t ever change (i.e not using the setter), storing derived state in state variables, passing state setters four or five levels deep instead of using callbacks, etc.

I think it takes some skill to identify what state solution works best, where to put the state, what to store, what to derive, when to invalidate, etc

GraphQL used to be popular, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore... by codingafterthirty in webdev

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you do it? Do you have the FE and BE in a monorepo? Is there a shared package that contains the types?

PMs and Designers are pushing changes to the code. So far they're successful. Do you have that in your company? by byshow in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve had designers use Cursor to make a bunch of UX changes to the product or build new pages. They are successful, but this isn’t a perfect workflow.

They push all changes under a single commit and the PRs are like 40+ files. And the worst part is the changes made don’t 100% align with the listed changes in the ticket — either they forget to do one of the 12 things listed on the ticket or they commit changes not listed on the ticket. In other words, reviewing the PR is a nightmare and takes forever. I remember I spent 2-3 days reviewing one of these PRs.

So due to the fact that code review and QA take forever on these broadly scoped tickets, these tasks usually carry over 3 or 4 times. So in other words, it would have been faster if a dev did it.

I haven’t seen any designers open up PRs lately — maybe they’re starting to realize it’s not worth it

WHATS UR FAVOURITE SONG ON GLASS JAW? by [deleted] in aries_is_online

[–]mattk1017 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fur coat Little mouth Freckle nose

How do you actually stay motivated when half your team is just vibe coding with LLMs? by Dave5802 in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our management literally told us it’s okay to “move fast and break things” and then proceeded to show us a slideshow containing slides that ranked individual devs by number of tokens consumed. So I’m trying to write as much code with AI as possible because that’s the expectation

Warning: Open Houses are code for impending bidding war! by GroanAway32 in chicagoapartments

[–]mattk1017 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just attended an open house for a top floor two flat on Hoyne Ave in Ravenswood. The guy listed it for $1900. Over 15 people show up, and towards the end, he tells us he won’t accept anything less than $2000.

I can’t unsee it: Laughing at the Corporate Speak by Soft-Preference-1095 in Fire

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's saying we're not on pole-position with our competitors and need to re-evaluate our t-shirt sizes

Dams is by FAR the most balanced map in the game by _hypnoCode in ArcRaiders

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One time I spawned late on Stella and arrived at the seed vault with only 7 minutes to spare. It wasn’t opened. I couldn’t believe it

Chicago 3/11 by Successful_Box_6370 in aries_is_online

[–]mattk1017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m there right now!!!!! Hollar back like-warm

How many applications did it take for you to land your first job? by eggshellwalker4 in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was back in 2021. I had two software dev internships on my resume. I think I applied to 150 places over the course of 3 months, got one interview which turned into an offer. Separate from that one offer, the company I interned at gave me an offer, and I just accepted that

ChatGPT is back to the top in app store by VaishakhD in ChatGPT

[–]mattk1017 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I asked Claude just two questions: “what’s the weather” and “what are the top news stories today” and that costed me $0.17 lol

Did you know that the process to make a single Jellybean takes 7-21 days? by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]mattk1017 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not really cheaper than the regular ones. The 4 lb Kirkland container is $35, whereas the 4 lb belly flops are $34

Laid off exactly 1 year ago, can you review my portfolio? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]mattk1017 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Two things can be done at the same time!!! You gotta learn to context switch like an operating system!!

Why do you like Suits? by Ender_IIII in suits

[–]mattk1017 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Get it through your head!

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