u/YouAreMyFire00

Do you think my friend has a point here?

My friend works at a small company with only 1 full-time developer and 1 freelance developer. They have a codebase with around 200k LOC but only 2–3 unit tests lol

Their philosophy is basically, “Our end users are our tests.” When employees find bugs, they report them, and the developers fix them.

My friend also argues that many devs write unit tests just to make them pass or achieve test coverage, often focusing on happy paths while ignoring edge cases that could cause real problems.

In his context, the company only builds internal tools/ apps for employees.

He believes that having no unit tests can actually be a reasonable decision for a small company because the time saved by not writing tests can instead be spent shipping features that makes money, and work life eaiser for employees

IMO, I wouldn't say he's wrong based on his context.

But I'd love to hear from you with real experience.

Does my friend actually have a valid point, or is having almost no tests just technical debt waiting to bite them in the ass even though they follow "Our end users are our tests" lol

Ps. the FT dev has worked in a start up only and got like 1-2 yoe

For example

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Det er sgu godt at jeg er her

Det er virkelig godt at jeg er her

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Both sentences mean the saem tho.... ,

Let me know I wanna speak flydende dansk, tak!

u probably heard those saying companies expect junior devs - senior devs to know.

1. FE
2. BE
3. Cloud/DevOps
4. Microservices
5. Monolithic architecture
6. AI/LLMS
7. Understand busniess domain well, like if you work for a bank, you need to have a deep knowleadge of bank domain.

I know some of you probably wanna rant, feel free to do that, we somhow can feel and relate to you lol

Så måske tager folk og investor som har over 10 år erhverserfaring også fejl, når de fortæller dig, at din idé er fuldstændig vanvittig eller dum?

Er der nogle herinde, som vil dele deres erfaringer med det her?

Altså det med, at folk ikke tror på din ide/vision eller dit produkt.

I heard that some founders already pay well above average salaries including equity to their employees

However, they know a high salary isn't enough to reach their goals and missions.

They want to motivate their team like they want them waking up excited to work every morning or in some cases sleep and wake up at workplaces! Basically work 24/7

To achieve this, they say things like

>'Sup Kevin, I belive in you and your potential. I want you to be part of our mission to build the greatest product and service that in this world never exist before!"

As title says

Det er hvad der skete for mig for 1 uge siden cirka 17-18 tid.

Min ven sagde at hun gør det altid og jeg skal holde væk fra hende

Ps. hun sad i en kørestol da jeg så hende

I check there are some good Tech stocks like Google, Nvdia, AMD, Apple.

they outperform SP500 in the last 5 years.

But however Meta, Amazon etc.. they didn't ....

So I wonder If someone wanna take a risk should they pick 1-2 strong fundamental stocks and invest instead of SP500?!

https://preview.redd.it/p3bs4t5j97nh1.png?width=1245&format=png&auto=webp&s=f00903d5e95e861e219fed65f2ec84c1bafdd783

Imagine you got 1m in a bank, it will lose its purchasing power around 20k-30k yearly to inflation.

But if they put it in SP500, some year SP500 goes under more than 2-3%

so how do they prevent that? Imagine those who got 100m, 1 billion.. if they dont invest their money lose like 100k , 1-2m USD yearly and that's crazy!

I googled they just put in SP500 like we do, some buy US bonds as well... but that's all I know.

Maybe people here can share more info

I just managed to build simple CRUD app with TS/node.js and react. I understand API and know how to build a chatgpt wrapper.

But i don't know those advacned things like MCP, Agents, RAG etc.. I don't know where to start.

I heard some people they build a team of AI agents like

Agents for

• coding
• marketing
• sales
• PM

I wanna learn how to build it too..

I tried youtube and many video are just 20-40mins long and I'm not sure if they cover all the things I need to know about AI agents or not...

So as the title says. Thanks

Let's say you interview for a Senior role, and you wanna know the dev team know what they are doing or they just do it because they are told so!

You can ask them about their tech stack and their decisions and tradeoff about why they choose to do this?

Why did you choose Microservice over Modular Monolithic? etc....

We all know devs get paid well and keyboards are like our weapons to defeate bugs and make money

As the title says

Is this really how companies are managed at the C-level? I heard about this and honestly, I was kind of shocked.

Sometimes in large corporations with C-level people and 1000+ employees,

the CFO is responsible for controlling the company’s finances, expenses, payroll, etc., basically making sure the company stays financially healthy and doesn’t go bankrupt.

Then, in some quarters, the C-level executives might tell a manager:

“Jack, you need to cut 10% of your department’s headcount budget. You decide who gets laid off.”

Basically, they’re telling the manager to fire people!

And a lot of the time, it might be people doing things like manual data entry, where the company can replace that work with an IT system built by the IT department devs, vibe coders!

If that’s actually how things work, I’m honestly not surprised anymore that some developers who were super friendly and approachable at first become kind of ruthless/evil after working 3–4 years.

It’s not necessarily that they became bad people.

Maybe the environment and corporate culture slowly changed them, eat them inside like their good personality

just like the main guy in Squid game, he was happy smiling and stuff but now he is grumpy, unfriendly ;(

For the last 1–2 years, I’ve been grinding, learning, and watching content about system design, software architecture, and distributed systems while doing my job. I wanted to be able to build a good codebase based on business needs and prepare for unexpected changes.

For example, last month my boss told me to build XYZ feature.

Then today, he told me, “I want you to change how XYZ feature works.”

You can see the pic where requirements changes constantly and I'm already used to it lol.

Anyway, the app I built for my company is basically a CRUD app that helps my colleagues eliminate manual workflows, save costs, and make money.

I work as a full stack developer using:

• React
• Node.js
• SQL
• Azure

My problem is that my job has become pretty repetitive, for real.

I still remember when I first started learning to code printing “Hello World” and building a simple calculator. I was so excited, like, WOW.

And years later, I’m building apps that my colleagues use every day and that make their work lives easier.

That honestly makes me happy, but the work itself feels repetitive.

• For example, let’s say you build a CRUD app to sell cars.
• Three months later, you build a CRUD app to sell clothes.

The business logic is quite similar. You modify the code a little

And concepts in the system design, software architecture , caching, message queues, database design, frontend/CSS, etc are also largely the same from Codebase CRUD cars and CRUD cloths.

Basically, my tasks keep following the same pattern. I get bored sometimes and find my job like a bit meaningless despite it makes my colleagues life easier and make money for the company.

However my paid is good enough, it is average but I got good WLB and good colleagues.

So i don't complain

What to do here? maybe you guys have been in the same situation like me

Ps. I forgot to mention I work as the only dev in this company so I'm more like a freelancer/fouding software engineer. So my job security is also high since I built those systems from 0 by myself. And my boss used to be a dev and now he own multiplies companies, that's why he doesn't want to spend time coding, he just want to focus on busniess. He doesn't micro manage like constantly asking me when xyz is done everyday so I'm happy

The reason job security and salary is high are because devs that code Cobol etc... they are retired, and the remaining devs are soon to retired!

But those non-tech big company they still need programmers who can maintain their codebases/IT systems. so they are willing to pay!

Imagine you make 100k USD ish while living in low cost country like Thailand, Vietnam etc..

it is a dream...