I spent the first part of my developer career wanting to work for a big company in the valley. Now, I'm grateful that it never happened. Here's why: I'm happy where I am and happiness is a rare commodity in the tech industry.
It seems to me that all AI-assisted coding learning material are overly focused on greenfield projects and most advice would be useless for an 8-year old brownfield codebase like the one I work every day. I should write a course.
@steveruizok I recently had to do something not disimilar: add a bunch of animated thingies on top of various elements in a React app. I ended up doing them in a giant transparent canvas. 120fps, no sweat. Then added particles for good effect.
@jamonholmgren This last week I flew too close to the sun! Vibecoded a big chunk of code and then it started breaking unexpectedly and I didn't even know where to look! I broke my rule to only let llm loose on smallish chunks of code and I paid the price.
@DamianCatanzaro Yo nunca había usado Supabase. Hace un par de semanas quise hacer una prueba de concepto de fin de semana con Claude Code y decidió utilizar ese servicio y ni terminó de entender por qué. La segunda versión la hice con SQLite.