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It feels like software engineering is cooked when you’re already a proficient engineer.
Then you watch non-technical people vibe code something and realize you’ll be just fine.
Yeah the bar is higher - but that’s literally all of the history of technology.
Don’t believe anyone that says you can just clone an app like MacroFactor and make $20k a month easily.
These apps aren’t easy to clone. Sure you can vibe code the basic stuff in a weekend, but the real value is in the details, which takes much longer and is much harder.
One of the funnier @grok interactions I've seen on here. This is a case to keep grok, please
I want to know what they were doing that they were using Claude Code 24/7 for WEEKS!
A ML Engineer who got 750k+ offers from Snap, Google, and Apple posted his study guide for getting these offers:
Big-O for beginners:
Imagine we have a stack of 100 sticky notes. On the back of each note, there is a name written down.
If I want to compare each of the 100 notes against each other, that is comparing 100 notes, 100 times, which makes it a quadratic time operation, O(n^2).
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