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Hi!

I want to change my career and to do that i have to know first what other career actually is in the real world on a daily basis. Then i will check if it interests me to follow along. 🙂

Could you share a little on what you do at work? I'm asking everyone. 🙂

Thanks for reading. Please share your work routine. 🙏

I once added a small “temporary” condition to skip an error during a release because we didn’t have time to fix the root cause. It was meant to be removed after the sprint, but it stayed there for months, and other code slowly started depending on it. By the time someone questioned it, nobody remembered why it existed, but everyone was afraid to delete it because “it might break something.”

hey , anyone running llm models locally ?
which model and which device are you running on ?

When did you realize your tech stack was becoming obsolete, and what did you do about it?

(Said it. Felt that.)

I'm a junior dev with no senior on my team to ask questions or check my thinking it's just me, Stack Overflow, and my own spiraling thoughts. Here's my problem: I'll watch a coding tutorial, follow along, feel like a genius the whole time... and then the second I try to solve something on my own, my brain just wipes. Like I'm hearing about loops for the first time in my life. No memory, no instinct, nothing.

So I want to ask the people who've actually gotten good at this how did you learn to code, for real? Not "watch more tutorials" like, what's the actual process? Do you stop the video and try it yourself first? Do you rewatch things? How do you turn "I watched someone do it" into "I can do it"?

Genuinely just want a process I can follow instead of doom-scrolling YouTube and feeling like I'm not retaining anything. Any structure, habits, or hard truths welcome

Really appreciate the guidance or any reference

I personally use gemini but I want to understand experience of others

I am a founder and CEO handling product design, leadership, go to market, and operations for my startup. We are a social app meant to connect people in a unique way that the market is starving for. Looking to expand the team with a dedicated technical partner and CTO.

What I’ve already done:

- The product is already fully designed with clear specs and features (MVP + longterm future features), language/copy and mechanics. There has also already been a prototype tested, and a tech stack available, though it’s not locked yet without engineer input.

- An active go to market strategy including a healthy waitlist that is still actively growing (high 10+% conversion rate on cold outreach) and a clearly defined market/avatar. Users are ready as soon as MVP ships.

- Daily content production will be used for distribution with plans to do even more. My account has reached ~700,000 views in its first 4 months, and that number is growing. I cumulatively have over followers between Tiktok and Instagram, and am beginning to post on YouTube as well.

- Leadership ability through over a decade of work directly with people, both client and colleague.

- Developed business skills through previous business successes. All business metrics are tracked and help determine how we execute our work and make adjustments when necessary.

What I’m offering:

- Longterm Cofounder position is available. I’m also open to other dev positions if you prefer (founding engineer, contracting, something else).

- Full ownership over the technical side of the project. You won’t have to handle anything else but the dev side, and you control how it’s done.

- Negotiable terms that I’d be happy to establish before any work starts getting done. Profit share, equity, etc. I want this to be a satisfying win for both of us.

- Full spec sheet and preparedness to communicate clearly and consistently over the course of the partnership.

DM for more information.

Devs were saying like "Why should I bother about docs, I'll write code comments". Today, in the AI Assistants age classical SW engineering documentation is gold. AI strives for well structured requirements & design specs, plans and testing docs, he navigates them effectively and derives excelent context.

Once you get it you'll never write a single line of code again and your speed and quality will rock

I want to whole-heartedly welcome those who are new to this subreddit!

What brings you our way?

What was that one thing that made you decide to join us?

Unsure if picked the right tag, but I am wondering what truly separates junior to senior developers. I recently had an interview with a for a senior position at a company and I wasn’t asked to write out any code, they mostly just asked my experience and about some topics such as “what’s async/await” and when to use it. Is there a way to better prepare for these types of interviews compared to leet code, etc..??