Tej

Frontend Engineer • Full time Builder • Part time Gamer • Tweets about anything that catches my interest •

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

Hey, RELAX.
Everyone has faced lots of bad days in their life. Take a chill pill. Do what needs to be done.
Take baby steps towards your goal, but don't stop. Just because others can run but you can't doesn't mean you are not good enough.
You too shall run, someday.
All is well.

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@mehulmpt But everything is now VoIP and VoNR right ? What choice do we have ?

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@hibernateAlpha @ankushdharkar @Meta @instagram Wait WTF? That was a bug they pushed ? Didn't it exist from a long time now ?

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

I leave gaps in a design doc on purpose because, if I do not, I am treating my teammates as hands, not brains.

The common belief is that a design doc should be detailed enough for an SDE 1 to pick up and implement without thinking. I do not agree with that. If every decision has already been made, the engineer implementing it is just transcribing your thoughts into code, which has now become a commodity.

When I leave gaps, two things happen. The engineer feels trusted to make real decisions, not just execute someone else's. And often, they find issues in my thinking that I missed entirely because they are now co-owning it.

I am explicit about this when I hand off a doc. I tell them directly that there are gaps and that I expect them to resolve some of them during implementation.

This is a very conscious choice I make. See if you would like to try the same.

Hope this helps.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@aps08__ And then you leave that zone, join somewhere and experience the same thing again ?

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@PhonePe I'm pretty sure I've never used PhonePe in my life. How can you send such warnings when I don't even use your app or service ?

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

What happened in Jaipur was the result of rising unemployment.

If the person had a good job, he wouldn’t have resorted to such actions.

I request the Govt, to provide better jobs to such people.

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@kalubabaa @IndianTechGuide How can one catch themselves? 🤔

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@Mr_Vivekji @IndianTechGuide Internet should be banned, by your logic 🙂

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@IndianTechGuide There's dumb, then there's dumber, then there's dumbest, then there's dumbest pro, then there's dumbest pro max, then there's dumbest pro max ultra, and then comes this education minister and the system he commands 🙂

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@Arpitaaa01 Stalk people, but pay for it

[Nivivivivivieeeee 💃🏻 @nivs29_panda]

The grand Kasa road near Hennur….forget the view, the smell is out of this world

Garden city Bangalore 🙏🏻

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@hijunedkhatri I mean, what if notice period has been clearly mentioned in my employment agreement?

Does that legally bind me and enforce me to complete it ? Without a buyout option ?

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

How lucky were our parents, commuting 2 hours in rush hour each way to sit in these cubicles for 30 years

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@tiennguyendev @sunnykgupta I'm now the sole FE Web orchestrator and POC. One guy put his papers down last night. The other two are orchestrators of Android and iOS apps.

Absolutely chaos. I now have one IDE and ~10 iterm tabs 😵‍💫

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@DefenceBrat @ChandanSharmaG I mean, his Bio almost screams andhbhakt. So, no point in trying to wake them up from the sasta nasha they have drowned themselves in.

This more I look at this, this is more of a people mindset problem than an issue of political party, religion or anything else.

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@sunnykgupta But the current AI era me feels like an orchestrator. I know just enough depth in every FE codebase, so that my prompts are detailed enough for an AI model to have better clarity on the requirements and reduce the number of explore sessions for it to begin.

Is this good or bad ?

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@sunnykgupta Given that the frontend engineers count at my current company is down to 4 (from 12), most of the time, I work as a sole FE POC on more than one task. So context switching burnout is the new problem, which I think is something the entire survival guide misses out on.

[Tej @tejas_shekar]

@sunnykgupta Another thing that I'm observing in myself between pre and current AI era, is that pre AI era me had a strong product knowledge. I knew the itty bitty pieces of the codebase. I'd come across poorly written code and mark it with TODO for future visit and refactoring.