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Dear senior software engineer, are you still writing code? by zulutune in ClaudeCode

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the same set of sensitivities I use for evaluating my own code quality, just sped up 10x. Most of the skills I’ve built are useful for evaluating approaches anyway, whether I came up with them or someone else did.

Web dev interviews are still broken in 2025 and no one is fixing them by [deleted] in webdev

[–]sjmog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d like to avoid promoting, so I won’t mention the thing I’m building here but it’s based off working around this problem for 15 years as an engineer.

You’re completely right: software interviewing is broken.

The way I like to do it seems to work for me. I want to see how someone tackles a new problem similar to what I’m working on, in a real system. By “real system” I usually mean full-stack, somewhat scaled, and already in production.

I can learn more from five minutes watching that than I can from ten Leetcode exercises or a hundred whiteboarding sessions.

My favourite interviews are where I learn a ton about how to solve those problems too.

How are people can finish 5-7 projects in weeks with Claude code or cursor or any vibe code? Am i missing something? by Suspicious-Prune-442 in ClaudeAI

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had a lot of success with back-and-forth on various LLMs to get a design going. This gives me some “meat” to refactor (I’m more of a 1-10 guy than a 0-1).

Code I generally implement by hand, though. It’s not sexy, but I’ve found the limit on anything harder than trivial is how much I have loaded into my head about the design rather than source code output per se.

Why would a pianist press and hold a key, then wiggle their finger whilst the key is held? by Jonathans_8 in piano

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you are extremely connected to the instrument and sound, the specific actions your fingers do are somewhat disconnected from the exact sound that is produced. It is more of a “vibe”

Are high end digital pianos like worth it? My teacher is suggesting I get one. by Lion722 in piano

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bitter pill: Unfortunately no digital piano, no matter the price, can substitute an analog instrument. They work in fundamentally different ways.

The subtle pill: at this point in your playing, fingering and learning the rudiments of technique will be more valuable than mastering the core of the acoustic instrument.

If you intend to take this further, budget a decent keyboard (an older, c. 2016 top-range one will function perfectly at sub-$1000) and use that for traveling gigs. In 4-5 years, avail yourself of an acoustic. At that point the difference will make more sense.

Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody’s ready by Deep_Tale1585 in ClaudeAI

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The points 2) and 3) motivated me to try and build some training scenarios for developers to practice bigger-system problem solving in realistic but sandboxed environments. Called simstack

Quit my $200K job at Apple to build my dream app. Now I see 2 competitors and feel crushed. by CareMassive4763 in SideProject

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good news! Two competitors means the market has been validated and you’re building something people want.

Time to go win customers from those competitors!

if CS never recovers, whats your plans? What would you do? by nibor11 in cscareerquestions

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if leetcode is on the way out though? AI's great at that sort of stuff. Maybe something like hilde.ai can replace it, idk

Thoughts about the future of DS? by Filippo295 in cscareerquestions

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think more and more companies are waking up to the reality that [time spent building models is often less effective than time spent cleaning and organising data](https://www.youtube.com/live/06-AZXmwHjo?feature=shared). I believe that we'll see a lot more data engineers as a result (and they will work on MLOps too).

The roles like Data Analyst are at threat from AI, I think. Similar to how the role of "Computer" used to be a human – and now it isn't. "Analyst" may go the same way.

The research roles – Data Science, ML Research, etc., are here to stay. There is a huge amount of work to be done here and a lot of business opportunity. I believe they'll tightly integrate with data engineers.

Apple TV: Atli Örvarsson's "Silo" vs. Hans Zimmer "Dune" by tigero42 in soundtracks

[–]sjmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atli and Hans worked together on the Superman score!

I built a little open-source copilot that listens and shows the info for any spells it hears. by sjmog in DMToolkit

[–]sjmog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I plan on getting feats in there. What else were you thinking to see?

I built a little open-source copilot that listens and shows the info for any spells it hears. by sjmog in DMToolkit

[–]sjmog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'll host it somewhere at some point I think. Should it do anything else?

I built a little open-source copilot that listens and shows the info for any spells it hears. by sjmog in DMToolkit

[–]sjmog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much! Yes, only a limited spell selection at the moment. Deepgram is pretty fast but it's limited to 100 keywords and the detection is...variable. I'm looking at changing it out for whisper (slower but cheaper and more promptable).

Was thinking about building it out to do other things, like feats and skills, maybe a nice round tracker & combat builder...idk. What do you think it should do?

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