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LoveLights :
System Engineering is the new best engineering
2026-05-07 15:03:46
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Truly_maidenless :
About to graduate this may and you nailed it honestly. The skill set that i have is essentially worthless to companies, apart from having a brain, there’s not much I think I can offer a company, especially if they are not willing to train me. It used to be the case that companies were willing to train junior engineers/new grads, now you kinda have to get to an intermediate level to stand a chance. But I do plan on improving and hopefully landing something soon.
2026-05-06 22:22:35
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r :
Microsoft engineer here. It’s not even about coding anymore nowadays. It’s about innovation.
2026-06-14 17:04:36
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Najxham :
But u forgot to mention about the gap and years of experience a fresh grad need to be able to think like what u mentioned, that takes time and experience, how is a fresh grad gonna meet expectations when they have zero experience.
2026-05-07 09:16:40
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Alice Inwonderland :
Bro what is meta even doing, are you telling me junior engineers are just… vibe coding ? Yaiks
2026-05-07 11:39:52
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Parnia :
but isn’t problem decomposition and planning the steps not something claude can also do?
2026-05-07 22:15:30
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andy :
100% agree, I feel like the advent of AI is pushing SWEs towards focusing more on engineering solutions rather than writing code. It was never really about the code, but understanding what the problem is and reasoning through it. The ability to reason through a system or problem is developed through experience, learning, and culture, something AI hasn't achieved yet
2026-05-07 01:27:31
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AprilGang :
Facts!!! At my internship, I am getting paid peanuts but I’m doing the work of a mid-level software guy thanks to Antigravity and Claude 😅 and I am learning a lot, learning about system design is way easier now as I now understand clearly what does system design videos are all about and concept I didn’t know exist
2026-05-07 13:18:46
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_d.o_ :
Completely agree with this. Implementation is becoming increasingly commoditized with AI. What stands out now is the ability to identify problems and build tools/workflows that create actual use for entire teams. Innovation matters more than ever
2026-05-06 18:00:55
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mgudesblat :
the difficulty of gaining this skill is that: if you don't do the boilerplate code and rack up some time just straight up coding, you won't have the experience to know how a problem ends up being broken down and into what parts/steps and how those ought to look like and work. the point of the drudge work for juniors was to teach them those steps through repetition and osmosis. how do you teach someone to paint without getting them to hold a brush and apply the paint by hand? if the skill now isn't to paint but to tell a machine what you want, how do you effectively communicate that to said machine without having done it yourself and knowing intimately whether the machine is doing it correctly?
2026-05-08 17:10:25
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ASERIC :
I'm doing this and I'm still cooked 💀
2026-05-07 00:51:18
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Todd Denaro :
Do you do a code block chain with pseudo code for problem decomposition into a macro view of the solution? Could you go more into problem + solution road map view?
2026-05-07 02:37:41
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goob :
still gna have to pass the leetcode interview
2026-05-07 04:17:12
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appleuser39979528 :
100% true but the funniest part about all this is that it's probably way cheaper to have an Junior engineer. Do it then AI do it
2026-05-08 20:48:03
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Lav :
alright then why does meta still ask leetcode for their interviews then?
2026-05-07 14:00:21
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Rio :
Writing code was never the difficult part anyway. Deciding what to write was and still is. It is imperative you can read and understand a large codebase / its core concepts quickly though.
2026-05-08 04:14:22
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helo :
im not a cs major, but i do code in my research. my mindset is that AI is my employee and im the boss, i still have to understand code to check if what AI returns is credible/works for what I want, but I dont waste time coding from scratch
2026-05-07 10:08:54
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Dwight :
Thank you Captain Obvious
2026-05-25 11:51:57
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NͥOEͣLͫ :
So basically do the job of the senior engineer?
2026-05-07 09:29:37
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Uncle R.A. From Da Future :
Listen to me closely: if you’re a junior engineer, do two things. First, find a mentor who is a true subject-matter expert in a core data domain like oil, healthcare, or finance. Data is already the primary fuel for global GDP, but 80–90% of enterprise data is unstructured—emails, PDFs, chats, logs—and most of it is unusable in its current form. Not all data is clean, and not all data is equal. Second, go all in on AI fluency—not just “using ChatGPT,” but becoming a translator between legacy systems and AI-native structure. COBOL has quietly powered banking, insurance, and government systems since the 1960s, and it still runs a huge chunk of core financial infrastructure today. Those systems file CTRs and SARs under the Bank Secrecy Act, and that regulatory risk never goes away. In parallel, the EU AI Act is already banning things like social scoring and certain manipulative AI use cases, especially around profiling and biometric inference. Put that together, and the real game for a junior engineer isn’t “how fast can I ship AI features?” It’s: can you design pipelines that turn messy, high‑risk, unstructured legacy data into AI‑native structure that is both useful and compliant? The lawsuits and enforcement waves are coming; the people who understand both the domain (BSA/AML, healthcare, energy) and the constraints (EU AI Act, risk, and compliance) will be the ones every serious organization has to hire.
2026-05-29 14:00:47
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‘Tis I, the frenchiest fry :
Yes - was in a call with all junior+senior SWEs and “SWE Manager”s yesterday and it surprised me what they had to know and discuss compared to 10 years ago (also go bears lol)
2026-05-12 13:34:53
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fuwqefuqeyu :
Systems design, business intuition, infrastructure, and some cybersecurity
2026-05-10 05:22:57
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Johnny_guitar :
AI can't write all the code. System migration is probably more than AI can handle.
2026-05-27 03:35:41
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Dorian Cottle :
So true. We seriously need to develop the patience and discipline to read AI-generated code. I would add code review to the list of skills. We are still responsible for the code we push even if an AI wrote it
2026-05-08 21:46:28
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Sol ☀️ :
Ironically gave me hope because I seriously hateeee coding and thought maybe this is the wrong choice.
2026-05-10 16:29:27
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