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Junior developer uses Controllers. Middle and Senior developers use FastEndpoints, Minimal APIs, MediatR, CQRS, AutoMapper. Architect uses Controllers again. Why does this happen? Because real-world projects benefit most from simple solutions. Junior developers typically

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. Thread

This will shock frontend developers. Kombai is a Visual Studio Code extension that can generate 100% of your frontend code by looking at Figma designs. And the code is pretty good! My first full year freelancing was doing this. It blows my mind that AI can now do a much better job at a

HOW TO BUILD SOFTWARE WITH AGENTS An introduction to Agent Driven Development. When used correctly, AI agents provide massive leverage for software developers. Most devs know this and want to adapt their workflows to get the most out of agents. Yet a question has been left

books are the most underpriced assets on earth. don't leave the house without one. buy every recommendation you get. schedule reading like a meeting with your boss. read old/banned/rare books. where else can you permanently change your perception of reality for less than $20?

Design a URL Shortener is a popular interview question, and there is a reason for that. It has a tricky algorithmic part for URL generation, and covers many aspects of how to scale a system, make it available, and design a data model. Here is how to answer with a step-by-step

If you're building an AI agent to automate some job, like a payroll specialist, the hardcore move is to just go get that job and do it for a while. We call this "going undercover", and we're seeing more of the top founders do it. It's the best way to learn what to build.

Huge thanks to all the open source projects that've made a lot of the tech we rely on in the world possible: Linux Git FFmpeg PyTorch & TensorFlow Apache & Nginx MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite Chromium & Firefox GCC & LLVM Docker & Kubernetes Also, all the open-weight LLMs... and

Nik Malykhin found it useful to get an AI assistant to write its own coding rules by analyzing his code, and then asking it to refine them as worked with it. nik1379616.substack.com/p/can-we-make-…

How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what we got? How many times do you have to see a model benchmaxxing to realize Humanity's Last Exam is a freaking idiotic name and that answering questions on it

It took me 5+ years to become confident in my skills as a software engineer. But I could have done it in less time if I had followed these 6 pieces of advice: 1. Learn a programming language well   Start by mastering one language, its syntax, idioms, and best practices. Deep

Lukasz Olejnik jack Grok on average, how faster this new algorithm can be compared to the old one. give some examples.

mr. beast says he plans to take 100 software engineers and lock them in a room with no Cursor subscription, with the first person to ship something that compiles taking home $1 million

Imagine you're in a system design interview, and the interviewer asks you to "design a messaging system." If the first thing that comes to mind is brainstorming technical stuff, you're on the wrong path. You're missing the most critical part of the design process. Even the

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Fathers who teach their sons to be dangerous for the right reasons will watch their daughters sleep safely in a world where predators cross the street. When you raise wolves who guard the flock instead of feeding on it, you don't prevent monsters, you create the men who hunt them