Elliot💻🚀

CS student learning software and marketing. Building in public: sharing wins, failures and lessons. Follow to grow and learn with me.

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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

— Bill Gates

[Elliot💻🚀 @ElliotTalksTech]

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

— Bill Gates

[Elliot💻🚀 @ElliotTalksTech]

The more you code, the more you realise:

Simplicity is a skill, you don't get it by default.

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@mandylu It’s so funny how you can build something that works but at the same time not fully understand why it works.

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@chaosengineerr Nah, I enjoy it too much now.

The way it speeds coding up and how much productive it can make you proves to be quite advantageous.

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@jiya_3063 I agree to some extent, but degrees teach you some fundamental knowledge.

Side projects teach you execution and make you run into real world issues.

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@RohdeAli Well, some people are probably working less because AI makes thing faster but the goal should be for it to make you more productive.

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@ThePrimeagen I find it difficult to balance my own programming with university and I study Computer Science.

It makes you realise that programming is more fun when you have more freedom of what you're doing.

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@vibeonX69 Noise-cancelling headphones, if you take public transport and you want to do some work they're perfect.

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@ravikiran_dev7 Yeah, but not for the same exact reasons as before.

Now knowing code is more important for reviewing AI-generated code and bugs.

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@vivoplt Software Engineer in 2028 ❌
Prompt Engineer in 2028 ✅

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If you were to teach a friend new to programming, what language would you start them on?

1) Python
2) JavaScript
3) C
4) C++
5) Java
6) Rust
7) Go

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If you were to teach a friend new to programming, what language would you start them on?

1) Python
2) JavaScript
3) C
4) C++
5) Java
6) Rust
7) Go

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@stanlee0nX I disagree, I find it very easy to navigate but I've been here since near the beginning so I've seen it grow.

There's just a lot of features at the moment but it's definitely not hard to understand.

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@NewsWire_US For context Microsoft cancelled its Claude Code licenses and moved to GitHub Copilot CLI. It took 6 months for them to move away from it.

Uber has also moved away from Claude Code in just 4 months.

They tried incentivising AI use using internal leaderboards and got abused.

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@vivoplt I would say it’s both loyalty and ambition.

They found a place which they enjoyed where they had good relationships which made them loyal.

Because they kept getting promoted and took on more responsibilities it shows ambition.

You don’t always have to job hop.

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@KaiXCreator Well users don’t care what language your program is written in.

You can do so much with JavaScript too, frontend, backend, desktop apps, mobile apps.

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Most people don’t quit programming because it’s hard.

They quit because they’re comparing their one month of experience to someone’s 5 years of experience.

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Coding is 10% work
90% eating because it made me hungry

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Abstraction is just complexity that's been PR trained.