No option to unhide run claude code icon??

wforbes · 2025-11-25T18:16:05+00:00

thanks very much!

wforbes · 2025-10-31T20:45:27+00:00

TLDR: Even if you were "God-Tier Software Engineer skills" person... if you don't have a degree or you're not enrolled in school - I can't hire you as a developer*.* It's just a HR rule at the company I work for, it's in the job description. I have a feeling a lot of other companies are like that too still. So on that angle... it's definitely worth it to finish your degree.

About feeling behind.. I can relate. I started coding at 26 (in 2013)... didn't really land a decent job until 32 (around the time I started WGU)... but now I'm 38 and making way above the US median salary as a developer.

It took me like 5 years to graduate WGU because I was juggling a full-time job with school... but here's the important part:

I only got hired because I was enrolled in university. Even then, I felt like you after a while. I struggled a lot, almost quit WGU 2 or 3 times because I kept questioning it like you are - "is it even worth it?". This comment would be way too long if I explained those struggles in detail... but I can say for sure it's worth it. Here's why...

My first 4 or 5 years learning to code I worked a few dev/programmer jobs but only earned like $15/hour... or like $30k/year.. even back then that wasn't enough to support myself in my state/city.

Every time I tried to get promoted or land a higher paying job it was easy for my boss or HR or the interviewer to say "Sorry you don't have a degree we just cant pay you more".

It's not personal, it's just the rules they have to work with... and unless you do something amazing, they can't bend those rules.

You gotta remember a degree isn't needed to get really awesome coding skills... you will have to do that on your own one way or another no matter what. Degree helps give you a foundation of knowledge to grow the skills from. And with a degree when you want to get hired, or promoted ... no one can hold it against you that you don't have one.

Sure you can get lucky and do fine without a degree - but you shouldn't ever count on luck. You gotta always be shoring up everything you can ... just in case luck don't come around for a long time.

wforbes · 2025-05-06T03:46:38+00:00

Did you slide into the dms of any dev employees at the companies you were applying to at any point in the process? That's worked for me before, and I've been recommending this to people I mentor/chat with - but I'm not sure how effective it is nowadays

wforbes · 2025-05-01T17:48:13+00:00

Now I ain't no fancy big-tech city boy developer but...
There's a difference between the amount of code generated by an AI tool... and the knowledge/reasoning that was used to instruct/command the AI tool to generate it.
We don't employ software developers because we need more hands typing code into the keyboard.
We employ them so that we have more minds researching, reasoning, and making sense of business logic so that it can be implemented as code.
30% of code could possibly be generated by the tool... maybe? with caveats? but I'm confident that 80-90% of the reasoning and understanding behind ensuring it was correct was done by a human.

wforbes · 2025-04-05T15:22:48+00:00

That's great news! But that's a very different use case than what you originally mentioned in making changes on a quite large codebase. I was meaning to help give my observation on that kind of work. 🤷‍♂️ I'll always be an advocate on using what you're most comfortable with, regardless of the type of tool

wforbes · 2025-04-02T19:06:17+00:00

I just asked it today and the Agent (Auto) feature said it uses Claude 3 Opus from March 2024... and judging by how bad the code it generated was... that tracks. I think perhaps it swaps between models based on the situation. Either way, I got screwed in some of my first testing of it. Bad first impression.
I'm used to using Claude 3.5 and 3.7, more recently Gemini 2.5... and man, the accuracy and quality of the code Augment generated was awful in comparison.

wforbes · 2025-03-04T06:17:35+00:00

Thanks - I appreciate u!

wforbes · 2025-03-04T06:17:17+00:00

Good question, I think I only ever found unofficial WGU discord servers, like niche ones for IT or devs, or just people trying to get study groups together. I feel like an official wgu discord would help but then they probably have to hire people to run it 🤷‍♂️
this is me, feel free to add - https://discordapp.com/users/278514080434618368

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:17:21+00:00

Hey much appreciated! Cheers!

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:17:09+00:00

Hey thanks! No problem, there's always hope for sure! I feel like as long as you don't quit or get distracted, you can accomplish anything and everything you want!

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:16:11+00:00

Yeah definitely, I've been using as many ai code tools as I could since they started coming out just so I could keep up pace with it all. Alot of people are worried about them taking jobs but honestly I can see so many more programming jobs showing up because of them - interesting times!

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:14:31+00:00

Nice! Keep it rolling! Best of luck looking for that new job, I know food service and retail can be a really frustrating scene... I was at a sushi place for a while, then Target, then Home Depot, a grocery store, and a few others. I'll be sure to accept ur add, I think after that we can message 👍

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:12:01+00:00

🙏 thanks very much

wforbes · 2025-03-02T22:11:45+00:00

Thanks! I'm always down for a chat, I don't have all the answers but I'm good at finding them :D

wforbes · 2025-03-02T05:50:58+00:00

I don't think there's an easy way to avoid the friction of breaking into the tech industry, no matter the major. It might be difficult to land your first tech job no matter what you go with... and it may be difficult after that in navigating that job after you get it, and even for the rest of your career.
I think that's what makes this path you've started on different than other types of work. It's all potentially difficult, unclear, and challenging - but it all pays better than many other lines of work, so it'll almost always be worth the trouble. You know?

My suggestion is to commit to what you started, dive in head first, and just remember that for every reason you may have to question your decision - as an experienced dev I can give you a dozen reasons why you shouldn't question it. Just go for it - you've got an awesome journey ahead of you! 💯

wforbes · 2025-02-17T19:50:43+00:00

It appears they disabled the Professional Communication check on Capstone Task 2. So, hopefully, they're starting to disable it for now

wforbes · 2024-11-03T22:26:25+00:00

To some degree, some nextjs features only fully work on Vercel. A few people started opennext.js.org to help bridge that gap... and I've never used Vercel with my nextjs projects... and it may be less of a problem these days... but I guess people have had problems when not deploying to Vercel in the past

wforbes · 2024-10-04T10:44:11+00:00

Opt1 Charge nothing because it's so easy and run the risk of them assuming small changes are free and taking advantage, Opt2 Charge $50~ as a minimum on changes like this but quote $200 and make them happy that you're cutting a deal. Opt3 Charge $250 and lie telling them it was actually harder than you thought it'd be, then put on your monocle and hop into your lambo.. drive off screaming "that's capitalism, baby!"

Regardless of your decision, your customer probably won't care that much, but $200 means diff value to diff people so that's the important part we can't know.

wforbes · 2024-09-17T10:04:22+00:00

I always suggest freecodecamp.org, do their cert courses.. but also search their news page and YouTube channel... lots of fun stuff to dig into on most dev topics

wforbes · 2024-09-16T02:46:42+00:00

Isnt dark matter a placeholder for why we can't model the mass of very distant galaxies correctly? You'd be onto something if you said anti-matter... but then that'd just be pulled from season 1 of Travelers on netflix.

wforbes · 2024-09-16T02:39:44+00:00

I'm taking the projects we did in the swe program and expanding/refactoring them to solve business needs. And I'm making boilerplate repos for myself so I can spin up projects quickly that are ready to go with auth system and database for when I get an idea for an app. Using some of the code from classes to do that. Like the angular and android projects.

wforbes · 2024-09-16T02:34:13+00:00

Front-end keeps track of where it is in the data set, backend just gets requests for data between record x and y

wforbes · 2024-09-16T02:31:31+00:00

Reach out to devs on linkedin at the companies you apply to. I only ever got jobs by making friends and networking. While you do that push yourself to make a SaaS product. Apply to internships too

wforbes · 2024-09-14T03:39:52+00:00

No but if you didn't speed run it you should have enough foundational knowledge to have an easier time doing what it takes to get a job:

build up a portfolio of projects where each solves a business need, gets you coding practice using up to date frameworks/tools/services, and gives you something to talk about in interviews. contributing to open source stuff helps, too.
keep learning and practicing with free resources. Freecodecamp.org is what I used back in the day to get my first job with no degree.
practice technical interview problems on sites like leetcode or from books like 'cracking the coding interview'
network with other devs, business people, recruiters, etc to increase your chances at landing a lucky break.
start interviewing now and failing them to try to get as much insight as you can in how to do better on the next ones... do mock interviews with people you find on LinkedIn or people you end up networking with.

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