I have spent most of my career in dev teams no larger than 7 people. I am soon joining a company where dev teams are around 50. Any tips or unspoken rules?

Everything development related I see recently are related to LLMs and I’m starting to get sick of it :(

Everybody keeps trying to get me to use cursor or GitHub copilot or some other LLM co-programmer that will shit all over my code

Any recommendations for blogs or podcasts or YouTubers that don’t only talk about web dev or devops?

I do control and embedded (along with some other stuff) but I feel like all the media I see is web dev or devops/AWS related

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My partners family loves game shows and so whenever we go there we only watch game shows (like 5 back to back 45min episodes of the same show for the entire night) and they make me feel like my mind is getting smoother

I graduated a couple years ago with a computer science degree. I’ve been working at an engineering company ever since. I never would’ve imagined the amount of physics and math I’d need to know for engineering compared to CS and I really enjoy it

Recently had to start developing on a PLC for a new project and didn’t realize how much these companies fuck their developers.

For example, I’m using CODESYS to write structured text to run on the PLC. CODESYS is free to download. However, in the free tier, they take all your .st files and ur config files and combine them into a SINGLE FUCKING BINARY which completely defeats the purpose of version control.

However, if you BUY their pro license, you can install a git module.

There’s other things that make developing in them suck. For example, the only IDE you can use is the one built into CODESYS and it fucking sucks. Another one is that their builtin IDE has a “dark mode” that only works on certain files. If you open a function file, it uses dark mode. But if you open a struct file, it uses light mode.

Also, having no other runtime than the one built into CODESYS fucking sucks.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled with VSCode and python 🤷‍♂️

Is it okay to rant to my boss about the situation of our team in our company? For the past 6months it’s been on and off if the software team will get laid off. They already laid off half the team. And my boss is speculating that they are keeping our team until our current project is finished.

I am frustrated because my job instability is preventing other aspects of my life (like moving out)

Survived my second layoff at this company in less than 2 years. Feeling bitter sweet.

When I joined there was about 50 people here and now there is a little more than 15.

I think the way this company has done the layoffs have been humiliating to the people getting laid off. The “higher ups” will request that everybody be in the office for a company-wide meeting around noon. Then at around 11am that day, they will individual take people into conference rooms and lay them off. By the time the company-wide meeting starts, they’ve laid off all the people they needed.

Why lay people off infront of the whole rest of the company? I don’t see any reason

I graduated with a CS degree which focused 99% on software only. In my current job, I get to write software to control hardware (pumps, valve’s, etc). I think this is awesome and I really enjoy interacting with the hardware. It makes the software seem more tangible.

I’d like to stay in positions that allow me to write software and interact with hardware but I’m having a hard time finding jobs that aren’t just a PLC programmer.

Do any of you guys have a job like this?

People with a computer engineering degree, what do you do for work?

I’m a junior developer on a very small team (4 devs total including me and the manager).

Because we are so small, we work in silos. We individually work on issues and rarely work together.

There is a more senior dev that I really would like to work more with. I feel there is a lot to learn from him because he has the experience and skill sets that I would like.

What’s the best way to work with him more? Should I just ask him? Or is it better to find a more indirect way?

As the Junior on my team, I get frustrated because I don’t know when it is acceptable to ask for help. I don’t know at what point I should find the answer myself or just ask my coworkers.

I am very resourceful and I know how to find information so I am able to help myself 95% of the time.

However, this often includes days of spinning my wheels and not making any progress which is extremely frustrating

I’m pretty interested in golang but I don’t have any projects that it applies to and I can’t do anything with it at work because the other developers don’t know golang either :(

Python packaging is way more complicated than I thought it would be holy shit

Grafana managed alerts are so fucking over complicated it surprises me that it is a professional product.

And if you need help, the grafana community forum is a fucking ghost town

And the docs suck too

Anybody hear about this Q* algorithm that was leaked out of OpenAI?

Why would you write a fucking blog about how to setup a software, but not explain the aspects of the software your setting up??? All you did was re-word the examples in the docs

Wtf is a microservice?

Sometimes I wish I could rent an expert for a day you know.

I do a lot of side projects that are mostly outside of my comfort zone and it’s frustrating having nobody to consistently ask very detailed and specific questions to

Anyone know any VScode extensions that allow you to add edit comments? Something that will allow me to highlight a piece of code, and write a comment in a text bubble. Similar to comments in the “Suggesting” mode of Google Docs

Survived the layoff!

Wandb is pretty great

Angular’s NgFor + selenium = StaleElementReferenceException :(

Any built a self-hosted compute server before? I’m debating making one. I am a big fan of laptops and don’t have a PC. I also don’t play video games so I would mostly be using the PC for code projects which lead me to the idea of a self hosted compute server

Adafruit is cool, but most of its stuff is for like cosplay costumes which isn’t very useful

Sometimes I have a hard time not working on side projects during work

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Something I hate is that I do not have friends who are also software engineers. I have friends who do cybersec and IT but none that develop software. I have nobody to share programming memes with or to share interesting projects I found

What about the other software engineers at my work? They are the type that are not passionate about computers and programming like I am. Unfortunately for me, they are just there to collect a paycheck

This makes me sad and frustrated because it makes me feel alone

I’m the only junior software engineer at a small startup where I do mostly web development, as well as other bits and pieces (automation, ci/cd, etc)

Our software team is extremely small so we do not have anyone dedicated to QA. I usually just ask a team members with related experience to review my merge requests. So if I have a merge request for our ci/cd, I ask the software engineer with the most ci/cd experience to review the MR.

Recently I realized that my MRs will usually sit for days, and sometimes weeks without the reviewers taking a look. And when they eventually do, they don’t even run the code. It seems like they just gloss over it and look for obvious syntax or logic errors.

It makes me feel as if my code and efforts do not have much value to our team.

It also pisses me off because whenever a issue happens in our codebase, me and my code is the first thing blamed even if my code is not the issue

Is this typical in other companies? Or is this something I should speak to my boss about?