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New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

rdrsss — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:52:44 +0000

+1 to this sentiment for now, I give them a try every 6 months or so to see how they advance. And for pure code generation, for my workflow, I don't find them very useful yet. For parsing large sets of documentation though, not bad. They haven't creeped their way into my usual research loop just yet, but I could see that becoming a thing.

I do hear some of my junior colleagues use them now and again, and gain some value there. And if llm's can help get people up to speed faster that'd be a good thing. Assuming we continue to make the effort to understand the output.

But yeah, agree, I raise my eyebrow from time to time, but I don't see anything jaw dropping yet. Right now they just feel like surrogate googler's.

New comment by rdrsss in "C-Macs – a pure C macOS application"

rdrsss — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:30:56 +0000

Love this, if I never have to write a wrapper around objc again I'd be in heaven.

New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: Developers, how do you deal with socials, blogging, etc"

rdrsss — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:48:04 +0000

> - If I want to join a new company, a technical blog or active developer advocates help me decide. I can get a sense of a company culture through what they chose to post and whom they hire for their advocate roles.

I'm curious about this, how does this help you figure out culture? Is it a "what's their priority" type of thing? Have you been wrong before? What the company communicated public was not the reality?

Personally I'm trying to become better at gauging this myself, and I've only ever been able to make a "culture" opinion during the interview process when I get to hang out and small talk with the actual devs I'd be working with.

New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: Developers, how do you deal with socials, blogging, etc"

rdrsss — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:41:03 +0000

> "So... how do you handle this?"

Same as you, I don't bother. I've only been working professionally for 14 years, and have also gotten this advice fed to me from my friends, "write a blog", "contribute to open source", "portfolio portfolio portfolio". And never once have I gotten jobs based on these things, nor have I hired anyone based on these things. That's not to say they aren't valuable, but I don't think they're as valuable as lots of people say they are. Or rather the companies that hire people who care about these things / find them useful are a smaller segment than people think.

Linkedin is an interesting one. It's the only "social" account I have, and that's because, for me, it does provide actual value. I never post, but I get lots of messages from talent acquisition people and can see when former coworkers are available for new positions or have positions open at their orgs. So in that capacity it still provides value to me.

That being said, does anyone actually read company blogs? I can only remember a handful of posts over the last 10 years that actually held technical depth to be interesting. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, or maybe they're not intended for me.

New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)"

rdrsss — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:57:32 +0000

  Location: Delaware, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No (But willing to travel when necessary for team meetups)
  Technologies: Go, C++, Mongo, Redis, Docker, Linux, etc...  
  Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18NjSRUuRhkBQ_vcweakgYu8gvPsnOXN0vd7FYgIuF3Q/edit?usp=sharing
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdrsss/
  Email: manuel.rdrs@gmail.com

Generalist programmer, 10+ years of experience, been working on backend's (mostly, also have done some tools, build, devops) for games for the last 7. Looking to branch out away from games into other industries. Excited to see what's out there!

New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022)"

rdrsss — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:31:42 +0000

Location: Delaware, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Prefer not to.

Technologies: Go, C++, Python

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdrsss/

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18NjSRUuRhkBQ_vcweakgYu8g...

Email: manuel.rdrs@gmail.com

Software engineer for over 10 years. Generalist programmer, I've worked across many different domains. Love to keep things varied and try new things. I've worked mostly in the games industry doing backend work, lib integration, tools, etc... I'm looking for something different (not games), I love backend and application programming, open to something new. Interested in doing something with rust.

New comment by rdrsss in "Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?"

rdrsss — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:43 +0000

Another +1 on this. This seriously fixes a lot, not everything, but a lot. Been doing it for almost 10 years now, and when you fall off track or get in future ruts. It's such a great tool to get back on track. Getting a great workout in always seems to right the ship and set you up for course corrections. Oh also give Brazilian jiu jitsu a try.