I work at a startup and we're currently thinking of adding logs, metrices, traces, APM etc to our backend written in golang, I'm a bit confused onto how to do that part.
I know about otel but still a bit confused on how to setup the whole thing.
If you know can you share with me how to setup, what providers to choose etc etc.
Hi, I'm working as a software developer at a startup in Bengaluru. Before joining this I had my own Development Agency which was a good chapter in my life. But due to some reasons I had to stop doing what I was doing. As my next chapter I joined a Startup in Bengaluru.
After joining I noticed things (on a technical perspective) were very unpolished and unstructured, my coworker (joined before me) is someone who uses AI for every damn thing, which I find extremely frustrating. Because he's someone who is not very well-versed in technicality of things, doesn't have any deep knowledge about neither designing nor building systems.
He haven't build anything that's different, or at least challenging, most of his projects are pre and post AI-era junk like netflix clone, youtube clone, AI chat app and stuff like that.
The problem is how he refuses to acknowledge suggestions and recommendations on a regular basis because his AI agent didn't mentioned those things.
He only has an surface level understanding of things and refuses to dig deep and understand, and why would he? he already pays claude to do it for him!
Every word I say to him, it feels like I'm wasting my time and energy. The tragic part is he's working as an engineer. That title used to mean something.
Outside of work he's a great person, but should it matter? My entire interaction with him happens on that work level where he's a complete dork. He's entire personality resembles that "monkey with the sword" story.
I tried many times telling him both directly and indirectly about not believing what AI suggests him everything and cross-check but all in vain.
I am not against using AI , it's just that you have to understand things on a deeper level to execute with AI,you can code with AI, but you shouldn't do engineering with AI.
Help me on how I can cope with him and be peaceful mentally.
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Let me explain the context a bit more:
When asked what's the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL his answer was : the language (referring to pgsql)? wtf really bro. This isn't just a statement it shows incompetence and how technically corrupt he is in his brain at the level he's in.
Submits PR with db queries inside a loop, maybe because his claude hallucinated , and he didn't cross checked? I reviewed it, told him, didn't cared or maybe didn't understood the problem at all cause again he was never interested in understanding.
API's should follow certain rules and laws, while we were discussing (I wanted to discuss) the db layer the api's the structure and all which I feel is a necessity to be discussed before we actually start to build (10000ft perspective) is very imp for me, he was not interested, because claude can create API's right? not until you're api's take 2 secs to respond to a db query, contains N+1 queries in almost every handler, the db is not properly structured, the docker image size is ~ 1.5GB.
What I shared is just the surface there's a lot of things he does which in some way also prevents me to solve problems. I sometime try to understand how he's here in the first place, we all know a single leak can sink an entire ship.
His focus is not in Engineering, and when you sacrifice quality tragic events awaits you.
The problem is not using AI, it's the ignorance of learning with AI and understanding how things work on a deeper level, so that you understand the problem.
Hi, I'm 23 working as a software developer at a startup in Bengaluru. Before joining this I had my own Development Agency which was a good chapter in my life. But due to some reasons I had to stop doing what I was doing. As my next chapter I joined a Startup in Bengaluru.
After joining I noticed things (on a technical perspective) were very unpolished and unstructured, my coworker (joined before me) is someone who uses AI for every damn thing, which I find extremely frustrating. Because he's someone who is not very well-versed in technicality of things, doesn't have any deep knowledge about neither designing nor building systems.
He haven't build anything that's different, or at least challenging, most of his projects are pre and post AI-era junk like netflix clone, youtube clone, AI chat app and stuff like that.
The problem is how he refuses to acknowledge suggestions and recommendations on a regular basis because his AI agent didn't mentioned those things.
He only has an surface level understanding of things and refuses to dig deep and understand, and why would he? he already pays claude to do it for him!
Every word I say to him, it feels like I'm wasting my time and energy. The tragic part is he's working as an engineer. That title used to mean something.
Outside of work he's a great person, but should it matter? My entire interaction with him happens on that work level where he's a complete dork. He's entire personality resembles that "monkey with the sword" story.
I tried many times telling him both directly and indirectly about not believing what AI suggests him everything and cross-check but all in vain.
I am not against using AI , it's just that you have to understand things on a deeper level to execute with AI,you can code with AI, but you shouldn't do engineering with AI.
Help me on how I can cope with him and be peaceful mentally.