#Career Advice

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copper river
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Heyo, I do Software Development since 7 years and don't get better anymore. Since I use AI my coding skills even decrease, because I am not able to use it in a way that makes me better. It just feels like let somebody other do my job and when it doesn't work I'm out. It also feels like cheating during programming tasks in school when you copy the solution of your friendly neighbour. I ever wanted to build software which helps people and makes me money, but an AI story I read killed my motivation completely. The guy who invented Plenty of Fish did that in two weeks as Junior Dev when AI was not a topic and instantly had success with it. I am too far away from this. I know some humans can work more when they are not intelligent enough to still have massive success, but I feel like in the context of programming this is not true. There are smart people writing MVPs in two weeks and there are people who are not able to write a fully functional software in multiple months even as advanced dev. I don't know what to do now. Should I stop programming and hosting and whatever else in tech and go the non-tech way of life or should I only stop programming. Should I try it harder than in the last 7 years and hope I can overcome my genetical limit. Honestly, I am so done at the moment.

wheat sinew
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Stop using AI?

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more coding less AI

copper river
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Thanks, nice article!

steel dagger
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Sales. You lack sales skills. But not in the peddling type of skill, as in selling value outside technical skill. Selling yourself and selling other values that you have, e.g. social skills, problem solving skills, etc. not everything can be brute forced with pure technical skill. Sr devs aren't senior purely out of technical skill, but management style, and program management skills. /end2c

sly gorge
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Here's my two cents, based on personal experience:

  1. If Ai can write code for you, certainly you are working in the wrong area, so far Ai has hardly been able to even touch anything we do at the moment. It certainly helps a lot in writing boring boiler plate crap we hate doing our selves, but that does not play that big of part in our work. Sure it could change in the future, but no one knows if and when that will happen. Giving up just because that might happen is same as not leaving your house in fear of lightning striking you as you exit your door.
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  1. I don't believe there are many genetical limitations to capacity to learn (excluding pathological cases but we won't go into that) as there are some sort of limits in the ability of different individuals to be motivated to do the work and improve them selves, also ability to focus (ADHD anyone ?). It's a question of want, desire, ability to focus and circumstances letting you to work on your self.

  2. Don't compare your self to anyone, period, it's the root of all misery. There always people that are better, richer, faster, more handsome and so on. It's best to live in a bubble a lot of the time. The internet brought us many great things and many terrible ones, the ability to instantly compare your self to other people (or bots) on social networks, and simultaneously having the ability to lie about your own achievements has caused endless depression across the world.

  3. Being a good programmer and being a successful entrepreneur don't usually overlap. Tech entrepreneurs are successful not because they are genius coders, but rather they don't give a shit if their software is held together with shit and sticks, as long as it does a thing that people might find useful. Quite the opposite, genius coders a lot of the time overengineer and burn time perfecting code that doesn't really matter, Instead of pushing the program to some kind of MVP. The vast majority of successful software is coded horribly badly, but it's done quick.

proud prawn
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What AI builds an app?

wheat sinew
proud prawn
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I want to, which program language is easier to learn for beginner. Kotlin, R or Rust?

wheat sinew
proud prawn
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None

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REAL💯

wheat sinew
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Real

proud prawn
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Thanks for the choice advice

misty imp
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It pretty easy tho

proud prawn
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My point is to learn the coding concept, once I do that any other languages is adoptable

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So on a second note: in your experience opnion, which is easier to learn for beginners Kotlin or R ?

misty imp
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I say "easy to use" if you have 0 coding experience before

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Once you know other languages you'll think R is wack

proud prawn
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0 coding experience, will a beginner gain the understanding of coding concept with learning R

wheat sinew
proud prawn
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But that's not my objective here, I want to learn the concept of coding

wheat sinew
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Then go learn Python lol

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Probably the easiest to learn and it'll get you used to most concepts in programming

proud prawn