iamirzhan

I built a debugger specialised for learning data structures and algorithms.

It draws the state of the program at each line. It's an actual debugger that runs with the code, so the results are deterministic and show the real state.

Like a normal debugger, it lets you inspect stack frames, pointers, and objects. But instead of showing them as raw values, it draws every data structure in its own way. It knows how to draw all the common data structures like trees, graphs, queues, stacks, linked lists, etc.

You can try it on popular interview problems (write your code or paste from the "Solutions" tab). Python, JavaScript and Java are supported today. More are coming, but I'm sharing it now to get some feedback.

Everything is free. Feedback would be really appreciated. Let me know what you think.

I might be too optimistic, but I really don't think there is any reason SWE jobs would disappear. Yes, AI is a great tool, makes you more productive and we can do more with fewer people, but the thing is there’s always more work to do. In opposite, when we're able to do more, there are more ideas, opportunities opens and hence more jobs.

Unless AI automates SWE completely. Which I don't think will happen. If AI is that powerful, it would be a completely different world.

Though I think there are some things that are true right now.

* The way SWEs work is changing a lot (though I think it's just a progress that always happened) and a lot of people might not like it

* Currently there is a lot of uncertainty and FOMO in a lot of companies, how to operate, what to prioritise. Hence it might be not a great time, sometimes there are decisions like layoffs, not hiring junior developers, etc. I think that stabilises with time.