Hacker News with Generative AI: Experience

Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months (marcgg.com)
This is a followup to what I wrote about how someone can have 5 times 1 year of experience instead of 5 years of experience. Note that some concepts and ideas will overlap as this is just a different way to look at the same question of career growth and pace of learning.

Career Growth, Learning, Experience, Time Management

79 points by kiyanwang 5 days ago | 49 comments

You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
Everybody hates working on legacy projects, myself included. As fate would have it, one landed in my lap recently. While working on it didn’t make me hate legacy projects any less, it did help me get a deeper understanding of the processes and practices we use today.

Software Engineering, Legacy Code, Software Development, Experience

777 points by tonkkatonka 7 days ago | 412 comments

Seven things I know after 25 years of development (zverok.space)
This is a loose transcript of a keynote I gave at the EuRuKo conference in September 2024. The video of the talk is here. Unfortunately, I only could talk in recording, but it was a great honor nevertheless. The topic is pretty important to me, so I decided to share a slightly edited transcript for those who prefer text form.

Software Development, Experience, Conferences, Technology, Keynotes

6 points by sharjeelsayed 23 days ago | 0 comments

I've been writing software for the last 25 years. Here some things I learned so (rpanachi.com)
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

Software Development, Experience, Programming, Bill Gates

5 points by todsacerdoti 126 days ago | 0 comments

The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience (blogspot.com)
A substantial philosophical literature explores the "unity of consciousness": If I experience A, B, and C at the same time, A, B, and C will normally in some sense (exactly what sense is disputed) be experientially conjoined.

Philosophy, Consciousness, Experience

159 points by Hooke 164 days ago | 113 comments

On Being a Senior Engineer (2012) (kitchensoap.com)

Software Engineering, Career Advice, Experience

155 points by rspivak 187 days ago | 111 comments

Ask HN: Could experienced developers have near 0 online prescence? (ycombinator.com)

Software Development, Online Presence, Career, Experience

23 points by cloudedcordial 210 days ago | 37 comments

Lessons learned in 35 years of making software (jimgrey.net)

Software Development, Experience, Lessons Learned

78 points by r4um 222 days ago | 9 comments

What I've learned about open source community over 30 years (opensource.net)

Open Source, Community, Experience, Software Development

176 points by throw0101b 235 days ago | 85 comments

Ask HN: Does last job experience 4 years ago make my application unattractive? (ycombinator.com)