Hacker News with Generative AI: Experience

Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss (jacobian.org)
If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you should take career advice from people who’ve been in the industry more than 10-15 years with enormous skepticism.

Technology, Careers, Advice, Experience

35 points by raybb 20 days ago | 46 comments

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

80 points by kiyanwang 45 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

783 points by tonkkatonka 48 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 63 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 166 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 204 days ago | 113 comments

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

Software Engineering, Career Advice, Experience

155 points by rspivak 228 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 251 days ago | 37 comments

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

Software Development, Experience, Lessons Learned

78 points by r4um 262 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 276 days ago | 85 comments

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