I started in 1984 and from my PoV, the more things change, the less things change.... We are going around in circles, or pendulums... In ~1990, I came up with my guiding star "Make it Run, Make it Right, Make it Fast", which 20 years later was sold as "MVP -> Feature-rich -> Scale" approach to getting off the ground. And here we have "Product First -> Figure Out what User wants -> Handle many users"
This is some seriously solid content, Alex. Thanks for uploading! Juggling two saas projects at the same time and I actually am finding out where my real strengths are, which is just being as efficient as possible in project planning, bug protocols, and overall organization, consistency, and best practice. I am still deeply concerned regarding the advent of AI, however. But hey... a product is a product. Even in spite of AI, if my product is stellar, I'll still be in biz. lol
That sounds amazing, Trey. Don't forget that you should be careful trying to optimize too many things at once in your life. Building habits, and especially, changing the existing ones is the hardest thing for a human. Try to progressively work on these things, 1 by 1, otherwise, it's really easy for one to set oneself for failure. And trust me, talking from experience, I have failed probably more then anyone. I love you man, be well. Alex
@@programmer-network Oh for sure! While i do find myself stressed quite often (lol), it's all very rewarding at the end of the day. As soon as vouzot drops, my lousiana culture academy, i'll keep ya posted! the other thingy i'm doing is paste UI. It's basically aceternity io but incorporating gsap react components too. So nothing too, too big, but I am trying to play defense here just in case i need to scale. Still broke as a joke, and still killin the piano. Love ya bro. Be cool, and know that i'll always be watching your content. Youre the reason I still have my vscode sidebar on the right side of the screen. Never goin back 😂
Hi Joe, and thanks for commenting. I wouldn't say that this is related much to the economy or difficult times, but rather like with everything else in life, I like to think of it as a "mass production". Nearly everyone is building software today, because it became main stream, more accessible and a lot of programming languages have a high margin for errors, and are very entry level friendly. So regardless of how the economy will evolve, I don't think this trend will change. If you go back e.g. 30 years, from Assembly, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, etc. you can historically see year by year, decade by decade, that we moved from lower, to a lot higher level languages. With the rise of AI now, this is will happen even more, hence, you won't need to be a total nerd to write software. Cheers :8)
Holy long time no see, wassup mate ? do you plan to stream anytime soon ? would love to hop into discussions with you and other folks that hang out in there
Numineeeeeeeeex! Sorry man, was focusing on some other things, I'm finally getting back into PN and this YT thing. Yes, I will stream tomorrow, 100%. Are you around?
@@programmer-network Man, that's so good to hear, I hope the "other things" all went according to plan. I've been really busy aswell, put my rust article on hold (which is a good thing, a lot of my initial opinions have changed), but seriously man can't wait for the stream, love the discussions and the soothing lullaby tunes aswell :D
If you are an entry level professional or a recent graduate, the best thing you can do to help yourself is to stay humble, and understand that you are practically "tabula rasa". In simple words, you have no experience, and for any company that will hire you, you will be a liability for months, before you become an asset. With that said, create such a perception, strive to find a place where you can gain experience, and open your both ears. There are thousands of companies out there hiring, especially smaller startups, etc. Find some on LinkedIn that you like, something that aligns with your interest, email them and show interests into being part of the team. The most important thing to understand is, nobody cares that you studied or that you have a diploma. Millions of people have a piece of paper, but it's not the paper that pays the salary, it's your contribution, and the value you bring to the table. So, focus on building things, focus on the core skills and everything else will follow through. And again, stay humble.
I started in 1984 and from my PoV, the more things change, the less things change.... We are going around in circles, or pendulums... In ~1990, I came up with my guiding star "Make it Run, Make it Right, Make it Fast", which 20 years later was sold as "MVP -> Feature-rich -> Scale" approach to getting off the ground. And here we have "Product First -> Figure Out what User wants -> Handle many users"
This is some seriously solid content, Alex. Thanks for uploading! Juggling two saas projects at the same time and I actually am finding out where my real strengths are, which is just being as efficient as possible in project planning, bug protocols, and overall organization, consistency, and best practice. I am still deeply concerned regarding the advent of AI, however. But hey... a product is a product. Even in spite of AI, if my product is stellar, I'll still be in biz. lol
That sounds amazing, Trey.
Don't forget that you should be careful trying to optimize too many things at once in your life. Building habits, and especially, changing the existing ones is the hardest thing for a human. Try to progressively work on these things, 1 by 1, otherwise, it's really easy for one to set oneself for failure. And trust me, talking from experience, I have failed probably more then anyone.
I love you man, be well.
Alex
@@programmer-network Oh for sure! While i do find myself stressed quite often (lol), it's all very rewarding at the end of the day. As soon as vouzot drops, my lousiana culture academy, i'll keep ya posted! the other thingy i'm doing is paste UI. It's basically aceternity io but incorporating gsap react components too. So nothing too, too big, but I am trying to play defense here just in case i need to scale. Still broke as a joke, and still killin the piano.
Love ya bro. Be cool, and know that i'll always be watching your content. Youre the reason I still have my vscode sidebar on the right side of the screen. Never goin back 😂
Demand switching from IT experts to IT generalists during economic difficult times, if I may say so, I think.
Hi Joe, and thanks for commenting.
I wouldn't say that this is related much to the economy or difficult times, but rather like with everything else in life, I like to think of it as a "mass production".
Nearly everyone is building software today, because it became main stream, more accessible and a lot of programming languages have a high margin for errors, and are very entry level friendly.
So regardless of how the economy will evolve, I don't think this trend will change. If you go back e.g. 30 years, from Assembly, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, etc. you can historically see year by year, decade by decade, that we moved from lower, to a lot higher level languages.
With the rise of AI now, this is will happen even more, hence, you won't need to be a total nerd to write software.
Cheers :8)
Still interested in software engineering
Holy long time no see, wassup mate ? do you plan to stream anytime soon ? would love to hop into discussions with you and other folks that hang out in there
Numineeeeeeeeex! Sorry man, was focusing on some other things, I'm finally getting back into PN and this YT thing. Yes, I will stream tomorrow, 100%. Are you around?
@@programmer-network Man, that's so good to hear, I hope the "other things" all went according to plan. I've been really busy aswell, put my rust article on hold (which is a good thing, a lot of my initial opinions have changed), but seriously man can't wait for the stream, love the discussions and the soothing lullaby tunes aswell :D
I am a 3rd year Btech . How do we break in the industry ?? Seems like GPT took us out first!
If you are an entry level professional or a recent graduate, the best thing you can do to help yourself is to stay humble, and understand that you are practically "tabula rasa". In simple words, you have no experience, and for any company that will hire you, you will be a liability for months, before you become an asset.
With that said, create such a perception, strive to find a place where you can gain experience, and open your both ears. There are thousands of companies out there hiring, especially smaller startups, etc. Find some on LinkedIn that you like, something that aligns with your interest, email them and show interests into being part of the team.
The most important thing to understand is, nobody cares that you studied or that you have a diploma. Millions of people have a piece of paper, but it's not the paper that pays the salary, it's your contribution, and the value you bring to the table.
So, focus on building things, focus on the core skills and everything else will follow through. And again, stay humble.
Sensei
Hahaha, hi there my friend!
Goat