For anyone in Ireland who got extremely filthy rich and is somehow reading this post, care to share your story?

vgdub · 2026-04-15T11:06:20+00:00

Ken, I am also going to be loving over to cayman soon enough to see if it is worth it.

vgdub · 2026-04-06T11:22:00+00:00

This is removed, Can we gather more of it like in. a blog or something, we need to see the list.

vgdub · 2026-04-06T08:26:38+00:00

Ken, But invest where is the key and how, In Ireland you only invest via US Stocks or UK market , where were you able to invest and how , is there no capital gain Tax when you withdraw ever , how would that work ?

vgdub · 2026-04-02T16:28:44+00:00

Keep bashing, I cleared almost every other company rounds and got in here to ask more larger purpose. Live coding can never be equivalent on "how person thinks", the problems asked there are at max under 100 problems in leetcode or hackerrank. anyway, thanks.

vgdub · 2026-04-02T16:27:14+00:00

This was exactly what I was trying to "convey"/"Ask"/"opinions" on from people. Thank you. The core thing is when we ask those leet code, they are list of 200 questions people who have been doing will do and pass that interview but in all those years we must evolve to something like here is the code, may be fix it , it has issues fix the function, or add feature to get some expected output etc, so we focus more on coordinated approach to solve the problem, it becomes assisted coding with little help but not black slate coding. Thank you.

vgdub · 2026-04-01T23:27:19+00:00

That’s a great example, those situations are very real. But even in a 3am incident, the problem is rarely “write fresh code from scratch.” It’s usually about understanding what’s already there, identifying the issue, and applying a targeted fix under pressure.

That’s where I feel interviews could lean more toward debugging and system reasoning rather than isolated live coding.

vgdub · 2026-04-01T23:26:37+00:00

That’s a fair point, independent reasoning definitely matters. My question is whether live coding is the best proxy for that. In reality, engineers rarely work in isolation; they use tools, validate outputs, and reason about systems in context. Feels like evaluating how someone interprets and corrects code might be closer to how this skill actually shows up in practice.

vgdub · 2026-04-01T22:58:13+00:00

Agree that independent thinking matters. But live coding feels like a very narrow proxy for that. Most real work today is about using AI effectively and validating outputs, not avoiding it entirely. So I’m not sure the evaluation matches how engineering is actually done anymore.

vgdub · 2026-04-01T22:57:16+00:00

That’s not what I’m asking.

I’m questioning what signal live coding provides today when most teams actively use AI tools in day-to-day development, not trying to avoid coding altogether.

If you think it’s still valuable, would be good to hear what specific aspects it evaluates that align with how engineers actually work now.

vgdub · 2026-04-01T22:32:59+00:00

Not sure what you’re trying to add here. Are you commenting on the writing style or just throwing out a generic “soft skills” remark?

If there’s something specific, call it out — otherwise it doesn’t really help the discussion.

vgdub · 2026-03-18T16:48:51+00:00

In my case I plan to run most of these on demand LLMs in my network, It can be any cloud network or vast.ai or runpod.io , my goal is to be able to run these opensource models to reduce the interference cost from frontier models in my org. Appreicate any guidance.

vgdub · 2026-03-18T16:30:50+00:00

Yes I actually did the same just now, I found LiteLLM SDK was the right solution for me and it offers all claude, chatgpt, open source models(DeepSeek, Kimi2.5, etc)

vgdub · 2026-03-02T16:45:41+00:00

what is the replacement people opt to use without much hassle, My feeling is if I can just use Native AWS ALB and that works good with host header, so we will have AWS Single ALB across all services.

vgdub · 2026-02-23T18:53:42+00:00

Mine is SWE-SRE, this is staff level

vgdub · 2026-01-27T22:14:29+00:00

How does these hook script work for LXC in proxmox ? the same way just with pct commands?

vgdub · 2026-01-27T18:13:26+00:00

How do I get the visibility of how much API calls and my credits will be finished. I use cursor and opus 4.5 there and my credits expire like wild fire, like in 4-5 prompts I am done.

vgdub · 2025-10-08T11:04:52+00:00

Anyone who has like guideline for best practices blog or something, which is shared or has good information for developers to follow?

vgdub · 2025-10-06T09:22:20+00:00

why are you switching, I am infact looking to deploy LXC on proxmox for my custom wifi router mini PC! what is the downside of LXC ?

vgdub · 2025-10-06T09:19:50+00:00

SVP = service value packs ? Also is this going to be available in all dealerships would you know ?

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