Volrath89

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Full Stack Developer (C#, JS) with over 10 years of experience, living in Medellin. Reach me out at "suarez.a.felipe AT gmail.com"
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Comment · 1 year ago
Big commercial airplanes basically already fly themselves. But people feel safer with pilots on board just in case, I don’t think that’s going to change.
Comment · 1 year ago
(10+ years of experience here) I will be starting training for commercial pilot license next year. The pay is much less than one of a software engineer but I think this job is already done for most of us, only the top 5% will survive. I don’t think I’m part of that top and don’t want to go to management or PO roles so I am done with tech
Comment · 2 years ago
Dotnet is also very good for building web apps, it also includes static typing and a huge ecosystem.

I agree that web dev is basically a solved problem, I don’t know why stuff like next.js exists

Comment · 2 years ago
Rider is great for front end development too!

I have used it for angular and react and have had 0 complaints, it works great and the best is that I do not need to switch IDEs anymore

I haven’t tried cursor because I don’t want to “downgrade” to VS Code anymore.

Comment · 2 years ago
You are right, except on the part about tweaking the prompt to get your desired code styling.

The easier way to integrate into an existing code base is just to refactor the code yourself. AI gives a working version, you refactor and move on. For me this has been a huge productivity boost from writing everything from scratch

Comment · 2 years ago
what would you say are the chances for tesla to actually deliver optimus and start a commercial humanoid robots operation in the next 5 years?
Comment · 2 years ago
overemployment in multiple 100k-150k year full remote jobs as a sr engineer

2 is easy to do, 3 is manageable. I've heard of people doing more than 3, but most I've personally seen someone do is 3.

Comment · 2 years ago
Does anyone know a similar article for the opposite case? Technical guy looking for a salesperson co-founder.

I think many of the points of the article still apply, especially regarding opportunity cost. A great salesman can make way, way more than a great engineer, so why would he want to join me?

And let's say I want to hire my first salesperson. How do I know who is good and who is not? For me as an engineer, everyone looks like a good salesman, because everyone is better than me (I suck at sales)

Comment · 2 years ago
wouldn't this be the perfect use case for the hybrid watches? I am looking forward to buy a Kronaby for next year.
Comment · 3 years ago
True. I remember I used this back in the day when I was a pro online poker player. I would like to try again in Software, maybe to kickstart an indie project ... food for thought.

How often do you use it and have you found any side effects? (or long term effects for that matter)

Comment · 3 years ago
Is Aspire/Dapr comparable to something like ABP Framework?

Or are they completely different things?

Comment · 3 years ago
10+ years experience here. I used to be like you until earlier this year when I was looking for a new job and thought it would be easy as it had always been.

Oh boy was I wrong. I tracked over 120 applications, had 20+ open processes with multiple interviews and in the end only got 1 offer (which I took).

Comment · 3 years ago
Being able to use generic hotswappable code monkeys would be the wet dream of corporate executives. Imagine being able to scale or shrink your dev work force on demand, as if we were AWS instances. Actually this is the selling point of companies like Accenture or Globant, no wonder they have been so successful.

From a dev pov, making sure you are easily replaceable means that you could also find a new job easily. So it’s not all bad.

Comment · 3 years ago
You are objectively correct, and it should be high status. But it isn’t. For the normies we are just a bunch of nerds.

Real high status is law, medicine, etc.

Comment · 3 years ago
But we _are_ fungible. At least 99% of developers in 99% of projects.

Management is right in trying to remove “personality” imo.

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