gave an interview where someone who was less “acquainted” than me with the LLM space advised i should pursue “prompt engineering jobs”.
when i asked him for feedback on the interview.
I had never had a petty interviewer before.
I wish more ppl remembered what it means to be an engineer
You could create whatever tf u put ur mind to but ai does all the thinking now and none of ur projects push boundaries
Sad times we live in
idk who should hear this but core CS is not optional if you want to be a great software engineer.
OOPs, OS, DBMS, CN, Cryptography, Software Engineering - these subjects quietly become useful everywhere.
everything compounds over time... the frameworks, tools and AI assistants will change, but these fundamentals stay.
regardless of the grade you get in university, make sure you actually understand the concepts
C++ is not for freshers, core ML is not for freshers, DevOps is not for freshers, Web3 is not for freshers and now even web dev is apparently not for freshers.
Every “entry level” role somehow needs 2-3 years of experience already. What exactly do companies want people to start with anymore?
The market genuinely felt more accessible before AI turned every hiring expectation insane.
i’m not sure about extended reasoning behaviours, but zero-shot outputs from haiku/sonnet/opus models are leagues ahead in terms of coherence, instruction adherence/ overall system design competence compared to SOTA OpenAi models.
with the launch of Agents—then MCP and other related niches, i was very avoidant of these just because they seemed complex and gimmicky at first.
Not anymore baby, we’re learning..