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Try to have ChatGPT generate some project ideas based on my level of experience and it keeps wanting me to put together a cloud based idea with real time collaboration.
Then do it.
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Then do it.
I'm no crayon eater, but I damn sure ain't that goodThen do it.
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I'm no crayon eater, but I damn sure ain't that good
You think it can't tell you how to do it? It's a teacher and a tutor all-in-one.
I don't want to have to rely on it too much, just to fill my gaps in creativity.You think it can't tell you how to do it? It's a teacher and a tutor all-in-one.
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Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
Every. single. day.
I feel like I don't have any idea what I'm doing.... cause I honestly don't
I don't know why these ppl haven't fired me yet. If I was them, I would have fired me by now
Truth of the matter is that... I wasn't honest during the hiring process. I said what I had to say to get hired because i was on a 2 year journey where I sacrificed literally everything to get here, and I needed this stuff to pay off. So I did what I had to do.
The funny thing about it is... I've been here since last May... Now I'm finally starting to get the hang of this stuff and I'm getting it done.
They would have been well within their rights to fire me previously, and even if they let me go now, all I can do is hit the
because I know I deserved to be fired at least 42 times that I can think of right off the top of my head 
In my defense, i was looking for a MERN job but this was the only thing I could find. So I had to start working in this archaic language and basically try to learn this foolery. I feel like I'm getting good at it at this point.
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
I just had a Karat interview today. Karat is basically an outsourcing company for tech interviews for other companies and some random person interviews you on their behalf.
I kept asking the interviewer follow up questions on the original question he asked and he kept ignoring me.
This is the only industry where it's a damn game to get hired.
Sorry you had a bad experience, but I love Karat. I did some of their practice interviews and that stuff helped me prepare for the real thing.
Change of plans, writing my own programming language and compilerThen do it.
Sounds interesting.Change of plans, writing my own programming language and compiler
It has been so far. Right now I'm writing the scanner and tokenization. So when it comes across a parentheses or a brace it can determine what's what. The book covers single line comments, but not multi line, so I branched off from there to get that working. I might take that knowledge to have syntax for template strings.
Just did string literals, next step is numbers. I'm debating on trying to tackle integers vs decimals or treat them as a single entity like the book is going to do. Matter of fact, the code to distinguish that would be trivial but I don't know how much complexity it'll add when I get to type checking and such.
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I have some older family that used to work for the government doing COBOL. If you want job security, that's where it's at.
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I completely agree
Prob an unpopular opinion but: the whole idea of imposter syndrome never became a big thing until STEM got flooded with people chasing lifestyles like those old "day in the life of a software developer" TikToks.
People with a month of boot camp started comparing themselves to people with a degree. People started getting promoted to "Senior" after 4 years. Everyone bragged about their $200,000 pay right out of college. Those people compared themselves to developers who were coding since they were kids and would've done it for free.
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Change of plans, writing my own programming language and compiler
You gonna be a legit computer scientist now.
Since I don't get to be one at workYou gonna be a legit computer scientist now.
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Since I don't get to be one at work
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