I’ve been a pro software engineer for 30 years.

Colleges are doing a horrible job at relevant skill sets for sure. But also, much of the time what I’m seeking is passion for the field. In today’s world, kids with passion learn everything themselves in their teens and go directly to the workforce because they’d learn nothing at college. College became a place to go if you can’t figure it out yourself, which also means you lack the passion, hence you’re really not a great hire for a small company.

I currently never hire college grads anymore unless they’re older.

Things are different at enterprises. They need so many people that the passion requirement is dropped and you end up with tech leads who are passionate leading armies of worker bees who need constant oversight. This also works but has its own inefficiencies far outside the scope of this comment lol.

That’s how I see the state of the industry. People need to follow passion, not money. Unfortunately the incentives are misaligned by society in general. Not sure how to fix the value problem. For instance, teachers and childcare should be far more expensive and as such pay more. It’s a super heavy regulated sector tho, which is part of the problem.

But I digress. College for a general software engineering job is a complete waste.

Copilot is GPT. MS doesn’t have its own model.

I find Grok great for research, ChatGPT great for fun and image gen, clause great for coding, gemini (google) good for quick tech dev/admin ops related searches.

That’s how I’d best describe what I use each for.

Do you find grok to be shit at everything? I find it does best/fastest when intermediate searching the web is required, it does that and sources it well. Asking something crazy like “what’s the best product for killing some yellow weed in New Mexico” will typically result in nice tables comparing products with links and details like that.

This is why you self host a private Gitea instance and have it auto mirror all of your github repos.

I forked it, and my instance automatically grabbed me a forever copy.

Nah it’s more complete with comments and all. Here’s a link to a random svelte file:

https://github.com/rxliuli/apps.apple.com/blob/main/src/components/pages/SearchResultsPage.svelte

What I’m saying is just a level deeper for comp sci people. It’s the same thing, but expressed on a 32-bit unsigned integer.

Same result. Deeper joke.

Would be better as 4,294,967,295 instead of -1.

Crypto currencies are a good example.

Meanwhile I live in decentralized finance world where I see it absolutely changing the finance world.

iTs jUsT a PaTtErN mAcHiNe

Pretty sure this guy was in charge. Feels like simple incompetence and bad luck.

Yes.

It’s 1-800-APE-TALK

Thank you for this. I’ve grown too tired of explaining it after the last 15 years.

Just because it’s not the solution for everything doesn’t mean it’s not a solution for something. Blockchain revolutionized global finance.

A RESTful service is (usually as of today) a JSON API. They aren’t mutually exclusive things.

There’s no black and white definition there.

However, when someone is creating a RESTful service, they’re stating that they’ll be paying mind to HTTP Verbs and status codes as a fundamental part of their design.

In the original image posted, that dev clearly wasn’t paying mind to the HTTP layer and as such a commenter called it just a “JSON API”, which is the catchall, ugly, Wild West, typical way of doing things.

Once again tho, it’s not black and white. Others can and will disagree and want to be pedantic. I’ve been a professional dev for 35 years, devs love to argue abt this shit.

I would do a 400 (Bad Request). Then, with varying amounts of detail depending on the scale of the project and the framework capability, the response body would be something like: { “error”:true, “reason”: “validation”, “detail”: “user id should be numeric” }

Coding using an LLM and not even reviewing output

Try the link of the post you’re responding to.

Ah yes. “This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth”. Simple eh?

Yeah I have a .engineering for my biz. I also registered mycompanyengineering.com to get through places that won’t take the new TLDs.

Usually banks.

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