#wtf do i do

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prisma coral
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i'm a junior its over

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trying to get into swe/ml

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"just do research" the professors ghost me

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i'm shit at thinking of good ideas for projects, so i can't even further my programming skills outside class

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ik i need to know cloud shit but is a certification enough im genuinely lost

quaint estuary
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im ngl it might actually be over for u

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gpa?

fringe sierra
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Mehdi

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Ur doing good bro

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Im very proud of u bruzz

quaint estuary
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matters for research esp if you have no relevant exp

prisma coral
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LMFAO

fringe sierra
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This world is small maen

prisma coral
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but i'm trying to lock in fr

prisma coral
quaint estuary
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swe bar is not that high

prisma coral
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like being able to conduct research as undergrad/master?

quaint estuary
fringe sierra
prisma coral
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it doesnt seem like they care

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that's something i'm trying to do at the very least

quaint estuary
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idk about ucf specifically

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typically to get into research though profs like to see high gpa

fringe sierra
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In my experience here at ucf professors care when youre there

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You go and talk to them

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Seem interested in their stuff

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Not what they have to offer

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Ik its a lot easier said than done

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But thats just what ive noticed here

quaint estuary
fringe sierra
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I managed help get my girl a ml research position as a bio major like trusssss

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U just gotta yap

fringe sierra
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I’m just always hopeful for my mentees

prisma coral
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but even that one doesn't have that big of a scope it's just limited to ucf and it's pretty basic

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"wow he saved data from an api and predicted what's gonna happen 🤯"

fringe sierra
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What do you like to do?

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Like genuinely outside of school and all of this

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What do you enjoy

quaint estuary
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ok for actual resume shit: resume just reads extremely weak as a whole. no gpa listed, projects are extremely basic, 2 hackathons without any wins, this mentee experience thing just reads extremely ngmi, skills section is extremely basic and underwhelming

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need to rewrite everything imo

prisma coral
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if it had to be something history & linguistics lol

quaint estuary
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like wtf is this algebra.py project doing on ur resume 💀

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please delete

prisma coral
fringe sierra
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Theres better ways to say stuff

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💀

prisma coral
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like what i have on my resume is the best i have unironically

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i only started doing shit as a junior which i am rn

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i don't think rewriting it is going to change much

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what i actually need is to learn more about programming/development in general and somehow implement that in an impressive project

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which i think the parking one does to some extent so it's getting better

fringe sierra
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first

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imo you need to ground yourself bru

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dont get into this whole "NGMI" bs

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your life is yours take it a step at a time you're caring about it which is already more than most

prisma coral
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i am grounded dw

fringe sierra
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you def gotta work on your projects section the most

prisma coral
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like i do believe i have a chance

quaint estuary
# prisma coral ok, how?

  1. replace projects. you can find better ones just by googling/browsing resume section. i would encourage you to drop all of them other than the parking one.

  2. reword the hackathon prep exp in a way that sounds like you did something rather than just passively got mentored (reads kinda like "i got tutored")

  3. replace skills with the new ones you get from projects. you can see what a good one looks like from many of the resumes here

fringe sierra
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your experience cant be developed well without your projects and what you need is a project/projects like raymond said that are novel and help in some way

prisma coral
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but learn how to do it on my own

fringe sierra
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reword the hackathon prep exp in a way that sounds like you did something rather than just passively got mentored (reads kinda like "i got tutored")
this i agree with just cap if u need to

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replace skills with the new ones you get from projects. you can see what a good one looks like from many of the resumes here
agreed

fringe sierra
prisma coral
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also why would i replace skills

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shouldn't i just add onto them

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a lot of those skills are vital

fringe sierra
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i think they're fine just remove git github vs code

shadow cove
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Would recommend having metrics for projects

quaint estuary
fringe sierra
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those are a given most of the time

fringe sierra
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@prisma coral

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yk whats a cool project idea

prisma coral
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i haven't made an impact for me to be having numbers on there

fringe sierra
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ngl a cool project would be to build a full-stack web app that’s basically an interactive world map for history. Click on a country or region and it shows major events, timelines, and summaries pulled from a small backend database. It’s clean, visual, fits your interests, and it scales as big or small as you want ngl

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you can host it on a vps

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exposes you to new stuff

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and then past that you have a vps for future projects

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mehhhhhh

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like 80% are true

shadow cove
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As for project ideas, look for things u enjoy doing ex. maybe you like sports betting so you make a basketball prediction program using player data, u can then say you predicted to X accuracy

fringe sierra
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some are guesstimates

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^

fringe sierra
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and i feel like if u like history it would be cool

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you get db exposure full stack and vps set up

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and hosted for people to use

prisma coral
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yeah i see what u mean

shadow cove
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Should try and avoid random project topics - if you work on stuff you like it will be more enjoyable and you will know more about it if you need to talk through it in an interview

fringe sierra
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^

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you can def tell when someone cares about a project and is passionate to "oh i just did this it was cool"

quaint estuary
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ai/ml has a lot of like biomedical projects

fringe sierra
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yupppp

prisma coral
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i can tell you that i do NOT care about bio or med

quaint estuary
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use kaggle or something

fringe sierra
fringe sierra
fringe sierra
prisma coral
fringe sierra
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nah i respect it

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ts tedious and doesnt pay well

prisma coral
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i like ur idea tho i might do something along those lines

fringe sierra
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yus twin trust

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ts would be peak

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i can help u with the VPS set up

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its not that bad using OVH cloud and coolify

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using T3 as a tech stack here would be fire

prisma coral
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but idgi why vps whatever that is over regular hosting

fringe sierra
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its cheaper long term and you can eventually host all of your apps in there

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past that "regular hosting" a back end and db is a pain in the ass sometimes for security

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so a VPS is as close to a rack you can get to in your room without having it ngl

prisma coral
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makes sense

fringe sierra
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yus twin yus

prisma coral
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i never get why certain frameworks and libraries languages whatever r used

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like i have an idea

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nextjs is for routing i think and typescript is just better javascript

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tailwind is styling

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but i think nextjs is more than that

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there's always more bruh 😭

fringe sierra
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u can do it in whatever u want

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but these tech stacks apply to a lot of the infra companies use

prisma coral
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yeah

fringe sierra
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knight hacks mono repo forge is a direct translation into a lot of the shit u do in swe internships

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like i could code in html css and js then have json for the db

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but i would severely incapacitate my learning doing that yk

prisma coral
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i just need to be told what to do and i'll learn how to do it

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and i get to put on resume

fringe sierra
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i like to think as ideas as something simple them overcomplicate them to learn

fringe sierra
prisma coral
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i learned a bit more css so maybe better luck this time

fringe sierra
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but yeah dude def once u get some more projects just drop these

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yus twin yus

prisma coral
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bet

fringe sierra
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did u visit any professor office hours?

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if u didnt its ok

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i didnt do ts so

prisma coral
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no not yet

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but i will

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im tired of getting ghosted LOL

fringe sierra
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good bruzz

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abahahah yeah they ghost me too dw

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ur doing good bru

prisma coral
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how did u get into the unary lab one

fringe sierra
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if you ever need to talk about any of this remember we here

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i rolled deep in his office

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and was like WASSAAAA

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i need this speed

prisma coral
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ima do the same thing 😛

fringe sierra
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yeah do it

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i know some gwc people got into it

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like 2-3 people

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i was doing good work there

prisma coral
fringe sierra
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i should have continued

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yusss twin dw

prisma coral
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ill lowkey pull up to that one and crcv

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crcv looks hella good for ml

fringe sierra
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crcv is dope

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labs are a good entry way

prisma coral
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bet

fringe sierra
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before u go to these profs

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read their papers pls

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and if u dont know how to read a paper

prisma coral
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actually

fringe sierra
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read this

prisma coral
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like going to studies?

fringe sierra
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nah like entry into swe

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i had gpt find it rq

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its good

prisma coral
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ohh igu

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am i supposed to glaze them when i pu

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yoo i read ur paper nice work on cnns

fringe sierra
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no just seem curious

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glaze != curiosity

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compliment them about their work once and then ask questions

prisma coral
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alr

fringe sierra
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at the end thank them and then if you could schedule a time to discuss an opportunity to learn from them

prisma coral
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i appreciate the help fr

fringe sierra
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yeah dude ofc

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i've been in ur shoes and so have a lot of other people

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we here for u twin

prisma coral
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so u talk to them like once or twice before asking to help out?

fringe sierra
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ye

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just treat them like people is what im saying

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never see people as a means to get something

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that mentality will cook u

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they work on their stuff cuz they care about it if you go in there and u genuinely think its cool they'll be able to tell

quaint estuary
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this works better for hardware-adjacent or aiml related

prisma coral
quaint estuary
prisma coral
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i believe u bro 😭

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i’m not doubting the approach

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but that’s prob more long term bc i need to focus on swe projects rn

quaint estuary
prisma coral
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i dont have them

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im in proc

quaint estuary
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oh

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gl

prisma coral
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badly worded

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thanks man

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i appreciate ur advice fr

fringe sierra
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u got this

prisma coral
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and urs

fringe sierra
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when u get humana life will be elevated

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yeah dude dw

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anytime

prisma coral
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lowkey this is becoming addicting to me

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😭😭

fringe sierra
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it is

prisma coral
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seeing that interview email gave me a high its crazy

fringe sierra
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tech is soul sucking and it sucks

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but yus its nice

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to get those procs

prisma coral
fringe sierra
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ts worse

empty quail
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HI

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too much yap in this chat

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you're gonna make it

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you're in a good place

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dont stress

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focus on building experiences whether that b e through research or making projects yourself

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telling yourself ur ngmi will make it come true

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ask adrian and i lmfao

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focus on building stronger projects

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atm you seem to have smaller projects

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crank out something big

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you got this twin

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feel free to dm :)

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^ anyone not js u

fringe sierra
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carlos real ya

empty quail
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yaya

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ik a research lab

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that is decently easy to get into

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feel free to dm and i gotchu

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^^ if ur not a ucf student pls do not dm me

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LMFAO

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but ik mehdi is

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@prisma coral ^^^^

prisma coral
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thank u man fr i appreciate everything

empty quail
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ofc

prisma coral
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definitely will

empty quail
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sgtm

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js dm and i gotchu w the details

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:D

upbeat sparrow
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Heads up and honestly your projects are very solid. They can definitely hit the keywords and get a good score from the ATS.
However, I feel if I am an HR, I am looking forward more about the "Actual" usage of your projects like what the problem your projects are solving/ your efforts to make your projects works while keep it maintainable and robust/scalability and flexibility -- you might to pick one or two project depends on the job description to add more detailed description.

ripe root
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i’m also in the middle of gmi and ngmi

prisma coral
prisma coral
wary sphinx
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It isn’t over yet bro

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You still got this

prisma coral
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do companies even care

prisma coral
prisma coral
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i can replace w best buy lol

wary sphinx
prisma coral
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i have never heard this

wary sphinx
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No it’s too expensive

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And I’m out of state as well so I’d be fried

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USF looks nice to but ion care about that

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Compared to ucf yeah

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This is why community college clears 🤦‍♂️

prisma coral
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i don't think that

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it's just not that nationally prestigious

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fr?

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i would have white space

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i didnt know it was allat

wary sphinx
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They are generational bro

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I wish I could compete for them in CDDC and other comps they do cus the aura they got

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in cyber security if you wanna succeed you go to UCF

prisma coral
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i was considering it a few months ago but turned out i just dont like cyber

sour sparrow
prisma coral
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no

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junior

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3rd

wary sphinx
sour sparrow
# prisma coral no

Here I'm thinking in my 2nd year, my life is over, can you suggest anything to me, doing B.tech CSE AI ML, learning thoroughly c and java, have experience in nothing.

prisma coral
wary sphinx
prisma coral
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whatever role you want to work as, look at the requirements for language and tech stack and make projects with those

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if you learn too much and never do anything you won't be able to prove anything

wary sphinx
sour sparrow
sour sparrow
wary sphinx
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Oh wrong person but ok!

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Give me a sec

sour sparrow
prisma coral
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and apply very early to job postings

sour sparrow
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Okay!

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I appreciate the suggestion.

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Going for GSOC in 2026.

wary sphinx
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Are you in the USA?

sour sparrow
wary sphinx
sour sparrow
wary sphinx
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At least your market won’t be over saturated

sour sparrow
wary sphinx
wary sphinx
sour sparrow
wary sphinx
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I wanna be like them

sour sparrow
wary sphinx
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You seem more talented than me hahaha

sour sparrow
wary sphinx
sour sparrow
fleet tree
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bro wrote generated 8000$ in sales in kitchen cutlery 😭

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incorporate a buisness, build out 3 production large scale apps, list the buisnes on linkedin and in ur resume as experience as self employed

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with the apps u build as client projects

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my friends got a atlassan internship and his resume was just self employed, club position, winning two hackathons

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he prob networked alot

prisma coral
prisma coral
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im just going to milk the parking one and see what happens

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it's a solid full stack app & pipeline

fleet tree
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ur projects gotta be

image.png
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like in this format

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in my opinion

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thats how im doing mine

fleet tree
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just say sales not cutlery

prisma coral
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that’s what i’m trying to do rn but i don’t know how i can replicate this

fleet tree
prisma coral
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also i’m more than likely going to do research, probably in simulation/unity & c# so i won’t need like 20 projects

fleet tree
prisma coral
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maybe 1-2, some hackathons and club involvement

prisma coral
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i couldnt get half the words there

fleet tree
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not mine lol

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beautiful resume almost perfect

waxen turret
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worst case pursue a masters

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for more exp

fleet tree
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masters expensive

floral cargo
fleet tree
prisma coral
floral cargo
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humana rej?

prisma coral
floral cargo
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dang og

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it may be wraps

fleet tree
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nahh

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theres always hope twin

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1k more apps shud be enough

prisma coral
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is a late lock in really that rare

waxen turret
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when it says ur grad date is spring 2027

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is that like

fleet tree
waxen turret
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jan

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or

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may

prisma coral
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no

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like may/summer

waxen turret
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br

fleet tree
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outside t20 late lockins are prob common asf

waxen turret
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bro

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ur good

floral cargo
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@waxen turret any offers?

waxen turret
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just delay by a semester

waxen turret
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not yet

floral cargo
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tuff

fleet tree
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delay semester become underwater soap plate technician at mac donalds

waxen turret
prisma coral
fleet tree
prisma coral
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2 yrs left

fleet tree
prisma coral
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i should b good if i grind

floral cargo
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oh wait u have 2 years left?

fleet tree
floral cargo
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ur good then

waxen turret
fleet tree
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i got less than you in stats but we can make it twin

prisma coral
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trust u can do it

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letting time slip by is so easy

fleet tree
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fr

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im looking in this resume channel for projects to stela

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im down bad

waxen turret
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damn bro

prisma coral
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lmfaoo

waxen turret
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😭

prisma coral
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bro do some shit for ur school

fleet tree
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its holidays

prisma coral
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no i mean

fleet tree
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i locked in after the semester ended for some reason

prisma coral
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see what everyone complains abt

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and try to fix it

fleet tree
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like a startup?

prisma coral
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no as a project

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like for my school everyone hates the parking theres not enough spaces

fleet tree
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true

prisma coral
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so im making a website that predicts it

fleet tree
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then i gotta go outside and talk to people

prisma coral
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use yik yak LMFAO

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i must have made like 10 yik yak polls

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to see what ppl want

fleet tree
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yik yak is ios only 😭 and most likely america mainly

floral cargo
fleet tree
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my shit ahh uni

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nobody gaf abt anything

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i got hella ideas tho

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from the resumes here

prisma coral
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yeah it might be over

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oh ur not in the us??

floral cargo
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he aint american bru chill

prisma coral
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where r u from

fleet tree
fleet tree
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new zealand

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sheep country

prisma coral
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gday mate

fleet tree
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thats australia

prisma coral
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same shit

fleet tree
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we say baaa

prisma coral
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wtf

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lowkey it must be tough out there bc in the us there’s kind of like a known meta i think

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if u go anywhere else its kinda free for al

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maybe im wrong

fleet tree
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but its kinda ez to get fanng internships

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here

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cause 90% of studnets here dont gaf

sacred orchid
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whats up i just opened a random channel

prisma coral
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wassup

sacred orchid
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nm

prisma coral
fleet tree
prisma coral
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lock in on leetcode

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and u will begood

sacred orchid
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this one

prisma coral
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0 iq convo

sacred orchid
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what do you do are you trying to work on your resume or something

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idk anything about swe tbh the only thing ik how to do is research

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such life

fleet tree
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this resume got a faang

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thats how low the bar is here

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his top experience was literally a company he created bruh

quaint estuary
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ui eng

sacred orchid
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i mean it works

quaint estuary
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so orz

sacred orchid
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its what like 100 bucks to create a company. thats if you do it officially

fleet tree
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its a big tech level final year in new zealand 😭

sacred orchid
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is that bc nz is small

fleet tree
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120 bucks

sacred orchid
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nice

fleet tree
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then u gotta file annual returns every year

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what about america

fleet tree
sacred orchid
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depends on which org structure you choose but generally same. its all claude-able

fleet tree
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did u make one

sacred orchid
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no

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i just do research

fleet tree
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r u grad

sacred orchid
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yea. i mean im not in school i graduated

fleet tree
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big boy

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mortgage n shit

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idk how to spell that

sacred orchid
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you got it

prisma coral
sacred orchid
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idk how cs student resume market works. everyone says make it look like jake's resume but ive seen random ass other resumes succeed well. but in different sectors

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i feel like surely the personal projects tech ceiling must have gone up like crazy though now that you can vibe code a lot of things

fleet tree
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but some projects u cant easily vibe code

sacred orchid
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unclear if those offer any actual competitive advantage over those that can be easily vibecoded

fleet tree
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depends how u write it i guess

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like making a vibe coded app scalabe using amazon

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u cant vibe code that

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what research do u do

sacred orchid
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why use amazon though lol

fleet tree
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or any cloud provider

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they all the same just different naming for services

sacred orchid
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you should just proxy scalability

fleet tree
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my country uses amazon

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mainly

fleet tree
sacred orchid
fleet tree
sacred orchid
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wdym

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every researcher uses claude code

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heavily

fleet tree
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so u just gotta know the concepts right

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wtf

sacred orchid
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you need to know what you want to do

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thats how it is in all contexts

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claude code prevents being bottlenecked by implementation details

fleet tree
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i thought vibe coding is not know any concepts just prompoting based on what u see visually

sacred orchid
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yea. research involves many iteration and feedback loops

fleet tree
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just vibes, not a braincell working

sacred orchid
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so you vibe some stuff. look at it visually. then iterate

fleet tree
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i see

sacred orchid
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occasionally copy the repo and ask for a refactor

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theres probably a smarter way to do that but idk how to use git

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🤣

sacred orchid
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learning to be economical with your human brain engagement

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actually idk im sure it's the same way in normal development

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esp when vibe coding in prod

fleet tree
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yeah cant vibe too much

sacred orchid
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your skill rating is how many claude pro subs you need. im still on a single stripe rn 🥀 might need a 2nd soon though

wary sphinx
fleet tree