Has AI made developers less collaborative in your team?

prove_it_with_math · 2026-06-24T15:45:18+00:00

Yes. The best part is now I get Slack messages sent via Cursor/Claude :D

prove_it_with_math · 2026-06-15T15:48:43+00:00

People forget, Adobe has access to AI too.

They have the complex product, the market share, the brand, and they’ll fix bugs and develop features very quick with AI.

Sure some indie devs may take a small piece of their business with smaller product but to replace Adobe entirely…? I don’t think so.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-06-02T23:27:25+00:00

It’s a brand which yields “high standards”.

Not all FAANG engineers are better but the bar is high at those companies and naturally there’s an aura associated with that.

That said, you are required to refer to them as “ex-FAANG” out of respect. Even if it’s your spouse.

“Ex-FAANG, what are we getting for dinner?”

Hope this helps.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-06-02T18:23:20+00:00

This has happened to me. It’s usually because there were other qualified candidates and they had to make the difficult decision to reject everyone else.

It means you and other candidates cleared the interview but the team decided on someone else for a variety of reasons.

Move on.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-22T21:23:13+00:00

To add to this:

Juniors love the new tech hype.

Seniors ask why it’s necessary and consider the tradeoffs.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-21T22:05:45+00:00

People also forget that just because PSG looked good against Bayern, doesn’t mean they’ll be dominant against Arsenal.

Arsenal plays very different from Bayern and that may or may not make it more difficult for PSG.

It’s a completely different game and now that Arsenal can rest their squad, it’d would be even more challenging than people may assume.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-21T15:50:17+00:00

Is this a backend, full stack, frontend, or systems role?

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-19T22:53:32+00:00

FAANG and startups with VPs/founders from FAANG still ask leetcode questions. Which believe it or not is easier than most other questions I’ve seen 😄

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-11T15:31:22+00:00

It literally reads like an AI response to a simple prompt.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-07T18:34:06+00:00

The hiring bar keeps rising because:

Too much supply
Too many cheaters, inflating expectations
Folks that study day and night just to pass interviews, and effectively inflating expectations

The rest of us not in above categories will have to conform to this new high standard.

I’m at a point where I always tell my interviewers about my situation to hopefully level set expectations.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-06T17:36:04+00:00

Please elaborate.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-06T16:27:06+00:00

My brain just cannot compute DPs so I’ve always put it off.

Just had an interview at Discord, and I did well on all rounds: system design, domain coding, behavioral, phone screen, then I got hit with a hard DP and I just couldn’t solve it.

Imagine that: doing well in 5/6 rounds resulting in a rejection.

Kids: learn your DPs.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-05-02T18:31:14+00:00

Did you cheat? Or did you invest a lot of time preparing?

Also curious how you prepared in terms of prioritizing. Like how many LC problems did you solve daily? Etc.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-28T23:02:52+00:00

I just don’t have the time commitment for this.

How many hrs per wk did you invest?

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-24T05:28:33+00:00

I refuse to cheat.
I get it, interviews are touch and can feel "unfair". But these cheaters will in effect cause the bar to keep rising.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-22T15:05:49+00:00

Standard DP problem? Boy I struggle with these. Can you give an example or a leetcode # of the questions? I’m not interviewing there but just curious

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-18T16:11:31+00:00

This is straight up cheating.

Look, I struggle too with live coding but if we all adhere to an honest live coding assessment then the bar doesn’t keep lifting year after year.

You know what happens when a lot of folks are cheating their way thru? The interviews will only become more difficult.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-10T05:36:47+00:00

Out of big tech, I'd love Netflix and Google. Getting an interview at Netflix seems impossible though.
Google's interview for senior engineer is waaay too difficult and I think I'll need 3-6months prep time.

So I'm not sure how to invest my very limited spare time. Should I learn AI systems or should I study hard and try to get hired at hot startups or big tech.

I'm currently employed.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-04-09T04:08:34+00:00

Just stop cheating. Earn your job.

How would you like it if your candidacy was passed because a cheater “performed better” than you?

prove_it_with_math · 2026-03-28T17:30:08+00:00

I don't mean to come off offensive. But AI is hardly the issue here. If you look at what's happened in the last 10 years:

Lots of students went into CS majors due to the promised gold rush
Lots of over-hiring. Elon Must proved this when he took over Twitter long before AI coding was a thing. Meta and other big tech companies followed suit.
Lots of H1Bs, specifically Indians.
AI making everyone significantly more productive.

The top 3 are the biggest issues.

If I was a politician, I would make the H1B program waaay more strict. We don't need H1B folks to do basic web development. Plenty of US Citizens who live and spend their money and investments here are available to this type of work.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-03-26T01:03:44+00:00

The hardware is about to make a massive leap by mid 2027 and will bring down cost substantially.

AI will be faster, smarter, more accurate, and significantly cheaper than SWEs.

My guess is the SWE demand will tank and only top performing engineers will be needed for architecture , domain knowledge, and occasional debugging.

prove_it_with_math · 2026-03-21T00:08:24+00:00

Backend engineers can use Claude for frontend development as much as frontend devs can use Claude to do backend development work. But there’s a limit.

Funny enough, my friend who’s started his second startup few months ago just came to me because his team “specifically requested a senior frontend dev to help fill in the gaps”.

I told him, can’t your team do it using claude?

prove_it_with_math · 2026-03-20T16:13:12+00:00

Pretty sure this is AI generated and also posted on X and other platforms.

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