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bloobluebloo · 6 months ago

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Hello!

This might be a weird question, but since you work in IT, do you use AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude a lot, or not at all? I’ve been learning programming for a few months, and honestly, it’s super hard. I’m definitely not a genius, so I use AI a lot to help me figure out what I’m doing and generate code.

The problem is that other students kind of judge and look down on people who use these tools, and it’s making me feel bad about it. Should I stop using AI altogether? I just don’t know how to manage without help or researching all the time.

If you have any tips, they'd really help me out 🙏

Thanks for reading this!

Hey anon! Well, the thing is that the IT industry in its entirety is pushing for AI integration as a whole into their products, so industry-wise it has become sort of inevitable. That being said, because we are still early into the adoption of AI I personally don't use it as I don't have much of a need for it in my current projects. However, Github Copilot is a tool that a lot of my colleagues like to use to assist with their code, and IDEs like IntelliJ have also begun to integrate AI coding assistance into their software. Some of my colleagues do use ChatGPT to ask very obscure and intricate questions about some topics, less to do with getting a direct answer and moreso to get a general idea of what they should be looking at which will segway into my next point. So code generation. The thing is, before the advent of ChatGPT, there already existed plenty of tools that generate boilerplate templates for code. As a software engineer, you don't want to be wasting time reinventing the wheel, so we are already accustomed to using tools to generate code. Where your work actually comes in is writing the logic that is very specific to the way that your project functions. The way I see ChatGPT is that it's a bit smarter than the general libraries and APIs we already use to generate code, but it still doesn't take the entire scope of your project into consideration. The point I am getting at here is that I don't necessarily think there is a problem in generating code, whether you are using AI or anything else, but the problem is do you understand what the code is doing, why it works, and how it will affect your project? Can you take what ChatGPT gives you and actually optimize it to the specifics of your project, or do you just inject it, see that it works, and go on your merry way without another thought as to why it worked? So, I would say, as a student, I would suggest trying not to use ChatGPT to generate code, because it defeats the purpose of learning code. Software engineering as a whole is tough! It is actually the nature of the beast that, at times, you will spend hours trying to solve a specific problem, and often times the solution at the end is to add one line in one very specific place which can feel anticlimactic after so much effort. However, what you get from all those hours of debugging, researching, and asking questions is a wealth of knowledge that you can add to your toolbox, and that is what is most important as a software developer. The IT landscape is rapidly changing; you might be expected to pick up a different programming language and different framework within weeks, you might suddenly be saddled with a new project you've never seen in your life, or you might suddenly have something new like AI thrown at you where you suddenly have to take it into consideration in your current work. You can only keep up with this sort of environment if you have a good understanding of programming fundamentals. So, try not to lean too much on things like ChatGPT because it will get you through today, but it will hurt you down the line (like in tech interviews, for example).

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ebelal56-blog · 25 days ago

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hardwarevent · 6 months ago

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2025 Resolutions

Hello! It is January 3rd, 2025. Sorry I've missed the resolutions post from 2024. I'm very much aware that no one reads this blog and it's more for my own personal reference, but still. About twice as much stuff has happened since the last post in relation to the other resolutions posts as a result. Q2 and Q3 2023 was mostly wedding planning. The wedding went well! We had an incredible honeymoon in Bora Bora. While we were out there, my grandfather died, so I had to travel soon after arriving back in California to go back to my hometown. That was not a great time at all. Fast forward a year from that, and my wife and I spent our anniversary in Florence, Italy! This was the final leg of a trip to Scotland to visit my mom, who lives there after retiring. At the beginning of 2024 my wife and I moved into a townhouse that we rent not because we can't afford a house (although ehhhh), but because there are way more rentals open than actual houses to purchase.

Work has changed a lot. At the beginning of 2023, we started shifting a lot to AI (Wow! Amazing! What a surprise!). I got the previous project to a good place, then switched to making GitHub Copilot-likes and AI Assistants. That's where I've been for the past year and a half. Frankly, I'm sick of it. Luckily, I might be working on something that our users will actually use and find useful soon, maybe. Also, I'm just a regular senior software engineer now. They took away my direct reports. Well, "taking away" isn't totally accurate as much as my manager saying that I am a better engineer than manager, and me agreeing with him. Besides, that principal engineer in the previous post? Gone, kicked out. Another direct report left from burnout mid-2023. Another got kinda sorta pushed out in 2024. All of them I was happy to see go, for a variety of reasons. Just one person is left in terms of people I used to manage. Am I happier? For a while no, as I was working through these cloudy feelings of failure for a while. Then yes, when I realized I was indeed happier. Though right now, it kinda varies from project to project. There's this concept of a "staff engineer", where generally, you give up individual coding for more meetings, coordination of people, alignment, glue work, mentoring, etc. The idea behind it is that this is the "next level" beyond a senior engineer. Coding a lot of stuff really fast can only get you so far up the food chain. To keep climbing, you've got to increase your scope and influence. I've been reading books and focusing on that for career goals lately. Since the last post, the stock price has gone down a LOT. Then it went up some. Then it went down some. And so on. Right now it's up, and seems to be staying there, knock on wood. The tradeoff of the stock going down is that my wife works at the same company I do, and makes about as much and I do, and together we make a relative boatload of money. The stock is worth less, but I have more of it. Could I retire? Still probably not. But! It's enough to be a cushion I could theoretically coast on for a lifetime, if I'm smart about it and cut back a lot of things. The economy has gotten really shaky for tech workers. A lot of people have lost their jobs, and months have gone by without getting another one. Linkedin is full of these stories, and it's scary. As much as I'd want to explore a break, I feel really lucky to have what I have. Especially as the video-game-like trend continuing of things just getting harder (looking at you, incoming president).

I just finished reading a book called Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. it was about two very close friends who start a game company and make some games over the course of their lives, and go through various states of their relationship during those times. One thing it made me think about is time. Time moves fast, and as you get older, it feels like it moves faster. I think this was smartly illustrated by the book by more and more time passing, on average, between individual chapters. I think this happens with a lot of books and stories, and the passing of time and relationships changing over time is a common theme of life, but this story made me think about that in particular. Time is moving quickly. Like, the time it took to pass through 3 years of high school felt like forever, ages, eons. The time it took for me to get through 6 years of college felt enormous. In both of those time periods, I wasn't even remotely close to being the same person at the beginning than I was at the end. I grew by leaps and bounds. I changed dramatically and learned so much. But I look at me now, and the me from 3-4 years ago? Pretty similar. That scares me. Change scares me, but not changing scares me even more. Maybe I've changed more than I think though. It's weird to think that at 33 years old, I'm at a temporal twilight of my life. Surely not, right? I haven't even had kids yet! We might this year though, we will see.

2025 is the year of the Snake, they say. Wikipedia says it's a year of transformation, renewal, and spiritual growth. I'm paying attention to that transformation myself. I'd like to lose weight and build some muscle, I'd like to learn how to be a dad and do a good job with it, I'd like to make progress to reach the next level of my career. I'm working to renew my fighting spirit. I need to remember to be confident, even aggressive when I need to be. I no longer want to shy away from conflict. I want to practice keeping my focus on something, and having my mind wander less. I also want to be calmer, more resilient. I just want to be all-around better, and I want to do that by focusing on those individual issues. Times keep getting harder, and I want to rise to the occasion.

So, individual resolutions:

Get better at public speaking. I've been consistently bad at it. I want to be better.

Gain some muscle. Use those free weights I got. Actually use the Peloton I still have (and admittedly do use roughly twice a week).

Remember to be confident and focused. Keep presence of mind as much as I can.

Learn how to be a dad, or at least read some baby books.

Thanks for reading, future me. I bet you're on your way towards meeting those resolutions. Here's to you. I imagine you now in my mind's eye. I feel gratitude. I hope you feel like the past year wasn't a waste. I'll try to make sure it isn't.

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lifeinapic · 9 months ago

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fromdevcom · 9 months ago

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