There are a lot of dev influencers deep throating AI tools right now for that sweet sponsorship money.
I get 6-12 sponsorship opportunities per week. They are plentiful right now.
Don't let the noise distract you. Double down on deep skill development that's built through critical thinking and struggle. When learning feels too difficult, it's often a signal that you're missing foundational knowledge to solve that current problem. It's NOT a signal to depend on AI to solve that problem for you.
I understand that the noise is loud, but we're in a very weird bubble that is NOT economically sustainable. Don't let the noise destroy your long-term future in tech.
I cannot believe almost 50% of you guys think that you NEED to use AI in order to land a developer job.
We have a lot more work to do here. I'm working on launching a new brand/podcast at the beginning of the new year that'll be dedicated to this. We have so much we need to talk about...
Want to signal to developers how competent you are? Brag about how many additional lines of code you were able to produce using AI.
There's nothing that developers care about more than the amount of lines of code you produce. Normally, a feature that might take you 100 lines of code on your own, might take AI a fraction of the time to produce twice as much code.
More = better. And don't worry about creating scalable and maintainable code. Because you can just use AI to fix that too. It can only get better, am I right?
I bet you a FAANG company is going to reach out to you at any moment. Just hang in there and keep those LLMs running.
Hey everyone. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving if you celebrated it. I just wanted to share a couple of updates.
With Advent of code and the holidays coming up, we'll host the hackathon after the new year starts. And it'll definitely involve fitness in some way.
Also, screw it. I'm going to temporarily drop my 1 on 1 mentorship session price to $57 for a few days for black friday/cyber monday. Expect it to go back up on Tuesday. If you're stuck in your learning to code journey or even just want me to take a deeper look at your job hunting strategy, feel free to book a session.
Thanks for being patient with the lack of Youtube content. I switched from Windows given the smooth brain decisions that they have been making lately. It's taken me a long time to switch everything back over to Mac. I had to get a slightly different audio setup, but I'm almost settled in. And no, I don't have time for Linux.
I'm also really excited about the backend course I'm working on for Scrimba. So I'm spending a lot of time with that.
I'm hoping to start pushing out videos again soon.
Can some of you stop pushing your shitty AI code into the web apps that I use every day? Some of them have become so buggy that core features become unusable for a while.
It was funny in the beginning. Hahaha, you got me guys. Good one.
And it has nothing to do with being afraid that AI is going to replace humans in tech.
I'm tired of the over-inflated hype that doesn't match up to the current capabilities.
I'm tired of people with a low skill level who want to improve in something, but who use AI as an excuse not to or lean on it so hard that they ensure they will easily be replaceable by AI slop.
There's no "thinking" or "reasoning". It's probabilistic.
If you are one of those people who constantly prop AI up on a pedestal, you're signaling to the rest of us a few things.
1. If you're using it for most skills you don't care to get better at, you're showing that you don't surround yourself with intelligent people who can supplement things you're not great with, and you are just satisfied with low-tier AI slop in anything that you create.
2. You likely use it to outsource your problem solving, critical thinking, or creative abilities. And you're getting dumber for it.
3. Or worst of all, you don't value high skill level in anything. You are the type of person who is just so... uninspiring to be around. There's nothing more pathetic than someone who constantly is looking for the easiest route and puts the least amount of effort in, but feels entitled to the rewards that other hard working people have achieved.
This isn't a resistance to technological change. There's a HUGE mismatch of the hype & marketing vs the reality.
This has been an incredibly disappointing period in the progression of tech that exposes the most uninspiring, low-effort people who, in time, are committing to a life of low aspirations and eventually cognitive decline.
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DonTheDeveloper
There are a lot of dev influencers deep throating AI tools right now for that sweet sponsorship money.
I get 6-12 sponsorship opportunities per week. They are plentiful right now.
Don't let the noise distract you. Double down on deep skill development that's built through critical thinking and struggle. When learning feels too difficult, it's often a signal that you're missing foundational knowledge to solve that current problem. It's NOT a signal to depend on AI to solve that problem for you.
I understand that the noise is loud, but we're in a very weird bubble that is NOT economically sustainable. Don't let the noise destroy your long-term future in tech.
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DonTheDeveloper
Do you think aspiring developers should be using agentic coding to grow as a developer and/or use it to land their first dev job?
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DonTheDeveloper
I cannot believe almost 50% of you guys think that you NEED to use AI in order to land a developer job.
We have a lot more work to do here. I'm working on launching a new brand/podcast at the beginning of the new year that'll be dedicated to this. We have so much we need to talk about...
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DonTheDeveloper
Do you think you need to use AI in order to land a developer job?
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DonTheDeveloper
Do you think you need to use AI in order to become a great developer?
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DonTheDeveloper
Want to signal to developers how competent you are? Brag about how many additional lines of code you were able to produce using AI.
There's nothing that developers care about more than the amount of lines of code you produce. Normally, a feature that might take you 100 lines of code on your own, might take AI a fraction of the time to produce twice as much code.
More = better. And don't worry about creating scalable and maintainable code. Because you can just use AI to fix that too. It can only get better, am I right?
I bet you a FAANG company is going to reach out to you at any moment. Just hang in there and keep those LLMs running.
You got this.
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DonTheDeveloper
Hey everyone. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving if you celebrated it. I just wanted to share a couple of updates.
With Advent of code and the holidays coming up, we'll host the hackathon after the new year starts. And it'll definitely involve fitness in some way.
Also, screw it. I'm going to temporarily drop my 1 on 1 mentorship session price to $57 for a few days for black friday/cyber monday. Expect it to go back up on Tuesday. If you're stuck in your learning to code journey or even just want me to take a deeper look at your job hunting strategy, feel free to book a session.
cal.com/donthedeveloper/mentorship
Thanks for being patient with the lack of Youtube content. I switched from Windows given the smooth brain decisions that they have been making lately. It's taken me a long time to switch everything back over to Mac. I had to get a slightly different audio setup, but I'm almost settled in. And no, I don't have time for Linux.
I'm also really excited about the backend course I'm working on for Scrimba. So I'm spending a lot of time with that.
I'm hoping to start pushing out videos again soon.
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DonTheDeveloper
Can some of you stop pushing your shitty AI code into the web apps that I use every day? Some of them have become so buggy that core features become unusable for a while.
It was funny in the beginning. Hahaha, you got me guys. Good one.
Please stop 🙏🥹
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DonTheDeveloper
I am feeling AI fatigue.
And it has nothing to do with being afraid that AI is going to replace humans in tech.
I'm tired of the over-inflated hype that doesn't match up to the current capabilities.
I'm tired of people with a low skill level who want to improve in something, but who use AI as an excuse not to or lean on it so hard that they ensure they will easily be replaceable by AI slop.
There's no "thinking" or "reasoning". It's probabilistic.
If you are one of those people who constantly prop AI up on a pedestal, you're signaling to the rest of us a few things.
1. If you're using it for most skills you don't care to get better at, you're showing that you don't surround yourself with intelligent people who can supplement things you're not great with, and you are just satisfied with low-tier AI slop in anything that you create.
2. You likely use it to outsource your problem solving, critical thinking, or creative abilities. And you're getting dumber for it.
3. Or worst of all, you don't value high skill level in anything. You are the type of person who is just so... uninspiring to be around. There's nothing more pathetic than someone who constantly is looking for the easiest route and puts the least amount of effort in, but feels entitled to the rewards that other hard working people have achieved.
This isn't a resistance to technological change. There's a HUGE mismatch of the hype & marketing vs the reality.
This has been an incredibly disappointing period in the progression of tech that exposes the most uninspiring, low-effort people who, in time, are committing to a life of low aspirations and eventually cognitive decline.
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DonTheDeveloper
Are you likely to be coding through the holidays until the 1st of the year?
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