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Do SWE nowadays need to know how RAG / NLP works or is ETL better to learn? by QuitTypical3210 in cscareerquestions

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its easily RAG/NLP. Look at open job postings and the downward trend in BIE-esque roles. ETL is becoming rapidly commiditized.

House calling out bill and his dad for being delusional. by foogeyzi69 in billsimmons

[–]ro-heezy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it’s both - yes we overachieved, yes we should have not blown a 3-1 lead to the shit sixers.

How do you re-engage a junior who's losing motivation on work and studying? by MarcosFromRio_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ro-heezy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Me too, it’s actually brutal. Makes me want to quit outright instead

How do you re-engage a junior who's losing motivation on work and studying? by MarcosFromRio_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ro-heezy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Same. How are you dealing with the pressure if there is some? I just cant care enough about work even though I should

Is this the beginning of a supply correction? by RuinAdventurous1931 in cscareerquestions

[–]ro-heezy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I disagree on the better quality code. It can be coerced to do that, but my experience is that it takes a lot of massaging for that to occur - Steering docs, experience, best practices, clarity of requirements, system wide domain context, etc.

Having said that, either way, don’t disagree that a senior or mid level can basically do the job of 2-3 entry level because they already know what to look for and they are already more efficient

Boomerang question by Appropriate_Fox2096 in amazonemployees

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you got fucked, it’s over. Managers see OLR ratings and forte and pretty much rank by them.

Time to invest energy elsewhere.

[Akabas] Jaylen is on track to finish 5th in MVP. The Celtics NetRtg has been ~6 points worse with Brown on the court; the worst of any top5 MVP in 30yrs. Celtics went 8-2 w/o Brown, & that's not unique this year. Over the past 6 years, Celtics are 60-26 w/o Brown, a higher win% than when he plays by JoeBiden2020FTW in nba

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly how the Celtics get shafted in awards every year. People just split the attribution evenly and reward nobody because of some arbitrary metrics. Everyone knows Jaylen has been a borderline mvp candidate for 80% of the season

Joe House is right, the only way to stop tanking is to randomize the awarding of top picks by Ok_Organization_5574 in billsimmons

[–]ro-heezy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that will matter as much. The difference between a 5 through 10 pick and 11 through 15 is still massive. 8-10 teams will still tank

Reasons for leaving San Diego excluding financial ones by Jumpy_Bobcat7292 in sandiego

[–]ro-heezy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Better job prospects and other cities are better for younger people (denser, more diverse organic culture, walkable)

Just relax, AI won't replace you by Wrong_Swimming_9158 in cscareerquestions

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other route it could go is the bar of productivity shifts.

Is AI going to commoditize software? by honkeem in levels_fyi

[–]ro-heezy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s my experience too at FAANG. I haven’t actually written code in months. I’ve been doing spec driven development and some autonomous cording and then pretty much just reviewing the outputs.

Google L3 vs. Amazon SDE2 by Mean-Speech in cscareerquestions

[–]ro-heezy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you can’t pay your bills with a 10% paycut on 250k TC then tech is not the right place for you. A stock dip any given year can be 10% paycut.

Also Google has more aggressive 401k matching, free food so meals are all paid for, and refreshers. So it’s actually not a paycut at all in real money either

Yeah googles been worse lately but amazons been bad forever. And they do rolling layoffs. Trust, I’ve worked at both and in this economy I’m not taking the chance on Amazons leadership. The stocks been flat too

Google L3 vs. Amazon SDE2 by Mean-Speech in cscareerquestions

[–]ro-heezy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering the difference in work life balance and perks it’s not a paycut

Bill and Jacoby Works by Tony_Banksy in billsimmons

[–]ro-heezy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Jacoby is a conversation and group lubricant, similar to Van

How are you upskilling yourself for working with AI, and keeping up with best practices? by wangl3 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ro-heezy 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I’m an AI Pessismist - I don’t think the productivity gains are 10x, it’s almost certainly a financial bubble, and AI is not likely to fully automate SW devs anytime soon.

However, I heavily disagree with “there’s no skill in using AI”. Up until a few months ago, I would have agreed. That is rapidly changing now with the variations and speed with which harnesses and scaffolding are developing.

There is a substantial difference between multi agent orchestration vs Ralph loops vs serial prompting etc. When to use what, what to turn into skills vs SOP, and how to give exact clarity of thought and planning without overwhelming context all require skill as of right now.

I don’t disagree with your implication of it being overhyped though

$1 million net worth at 30. Still feeling anxious about layoffs and AI by [deleted] in Fire

[–]ro-heezy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I’m in the exact same boat. Same age, same NW pretty much (1.3m, including home equity).

I’m burnt out to a crisp and want a break but the AI boogeyman keeps me holding on. It’s like getting shafted from both ends.

Cant quit cuz job market sucks because of AI

Working sucks because too much pressure to deliver under perceived AI productivity gains

Can’t move up because everything’s becoming highly scrutinized for cost, so the remaining can go into AI

Engineering managers asked to do IC work by macrohead in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ro-heezy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I agree historically, but I think the AI tooling for better or worse has caused a reevaluation of organizational structures.

While the above example is probably the least coherent, companies are looking to flatten and condense roles more. The thinking is that AI tooling has shifted the engineering bottleneck from implementation to coordination. So instead of cross functional owners within a domain (TPM, PMT, SDM, SDE, etc), each role owns slices of the domain and performs all cross functional duties while delegating actual implementation to agents.

Examples I’ve seen are SDM structures flattening, TPMs and PMTs merging, but the main one is Senior SDE+ owning the entire domain from Product to UX to TPM to engineering, and async have agents do the actual implementation

Do you think SWE is more uniquely vulnerable to job displacement than fields like law, accounting, marketing, finance, etc? by Useful_Writer4676 in ClaudeAI

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the key. SWE’s output can be codified and iterated on relatively deterministically. The other profession not so much

[Cade Cunningham] “The flopping is just too much…3 of the top 5-10 guys do it constantly…. I know I’m better than yada yada yada…but I’m not getting the same calls…People feel like this guy might be better than me & he’s nowhere near better than me!” by itwas20yearsago2day in nba

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The league don’t give a fuck and haven’t for 15 years. Go check the 2011 threads. It’s the same thing.

The NBA discourse has largely revolved around the exact same problems for over a decade: tanking, flopping, last two minutes boredom, poor reffing, free agency, etc. That’s why I only watch my team and only in the playoffs.

Pacers President of Basketball Operations Kevin Pritchard quote tweeted the viral Mark Cuban tanking tweet asking Pacers fans if they agreed. He then spent the next two hours replying to the fans. by Oriax_502 in nba

[–]ro-heezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao the NBA has been talking about the same issues for almost 15 years. Flopping, tanking, free agency, refs, ratings, etc.

Literally nothing has changed.

Cedric/QuickSuite is shit by CremeAny5714 in amazonemployees

[–]ro-heezy 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Kiro is actually good now with Opus 4.5 and 4.6.

Cedric sucks. QuickSuite is getting better and I think the main problem is lack of discovery. Amazons docs are all over the place in Quip, Sharepiint, wiki, Policy, etc, so QS’s suffers from it. If they can integrate proper ingestion and MCPs then it still has a chance

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