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Wow I actually learned so much from this. I’m currently going into 9th grade and taking computer science classes because I really want to be a software engineer some day and I learned so much from each level and what to focus and master to get promoted. It will probably take me a couple years but I WILL become a software engineer some day!!

Really valuable content

Great content. You have such good advices that I haven’t heard any where

Please make more such videos

Simple, yet very interesting approach. I will give it a go!

The cat cleaning herself at @2:27 lol

What tool/application do you use to maintain your todos, top of mind and projects art work?

This video is actually golden. I think a lot of people incorrectly assume that senior developers just know how to code more effectively. Instead it has way more to do with being able to lead other developers towards a solution. As you said, as the senior, you're typically the one to both come up with solutions to ambigious problems and prioritize those solutions so the dev team knows what to work on.

10:22 what if my organization doesn't have clear defined expectation for each level?

Your videos 1 year ago took me here. While I do agree with most of the points you made in the video and your long-term vision, the current state of AI does not convince me that the change will come fast enough. Self-driving has been promised to us years ago and tricked some large company into building cars, but where is it now? Trucking has been theorized to be the first impacted by self-driving due to its more simple and predictable routes. Logically, people should not become truck drivers but it is actually one of the higher paying jobs now. One could certainly argue that it will be different in 10 years. Ten years is negligible in human history but quite long in a person's life. Next, I'll address the craftsman vs entrepreneur debate. I do agree that adopting an entrepreneur mindset is more relevant now but I also feel that craftsman is still critical. If it was a 50-50 for me, it would be 40-60 now, with entrepreneur winning by a small margin. Let me give some concrete scenarios: 1. AI wrote the code that can scale to millions of users. However, my App is more popular and used by billions of users across the globe. Scalability is costing me millions of dollars every year and I need to rewrite the code. 2. AI wrote some buggy code a long time ago and a recently added use case surfaces that bug. With better craftsmanship, you can imagine that addressing scalability or debugging would be easier (not exactly easy but much easier than when scalability and maintainability are not baked into the design). But if AI were to do the job, it would need to re-generate thousands of lines of code. There is not a single model that even comes close to that right now (my assumptions are already that LLMs can generate functionally correct code, which is not something that we get now). I still do believe that there's a future when existing commonly held principles such as DRY or SOLID will become irrelevant. Programming would be more declarative then. The question is when. There's a meaningful difference between 10 years and 100 years although both are commonly referred to as "in the long term".

your humour is lit

so helpful and clear

The channel is a gold mine, but I have a question. I'm struggling to get better at c++ on contributing to open source projects on GitHub. Please could you explain how learning takes place as software engineer? As in, how do you learn things for software engineering? What's the process/ framework you use? Thanks

Great video! Are there some particular videos you would recommend on situational leadership?

Thank you, Kun. You always deliver extremely insightful analysis. This is the best analysis I've seen on this topic so far, I think. 🙂

I have been concerned about my software job security as AI development pace insanely fast, this is by far the most valuable lessons i have ever found on internet. I truly appreciate your contribution! Kun, I mean it. Thank you

Do you have any recommendations to improve more quickly at handling ambiguity?

Ok, but where did you get that shirt?!

Agreed plus it's harder to show impact if there aren't many engs around who can give you good feedback at review

This was great! Helpful to think like this in general.

Insightful video Kun. I am sure everyone is contemplating the impact of AI on their professional/personal lives. It is indeed hard to compete with the AI's ability to process internet size data and draw relevant insights to drive context-aware actions, though there is the problem of hallucinations. With AI Agents and the push to develop AGI, the future is fuzzy. Evidently, pivoting to entrepreneurship and independent consulting seems like an essential step with layoffs, reduced hiring making the news and AI being more accessible. Not sure if the current big tech model would work for the larger populous in the age of AI. Would like to know your take on that and any changing trends at work place and business in general, in an increasingly AI integrated world.

Lovely, my only issue is with measuring or quantifying outcome while working on a start-up finding the time to do those nice things is impossible, even though is needed otherwise boss comes saying you've done nothing

Brilliant insights! Thanks

This was good but I found something lacking. I would've appreciated a concrete tech example, in addition to the more generic wilderness one. Still, I only just discovered your channel and I've subscribed instantly!

Thanks Kun. I realized that this is not just for work, but for life as well.

Very glad i found your channel. Thanks for doing these and sharing with the world. ❤ Videos about ways to keeping up technically above senior are also useful :). Things like: do you mostly learn on the job, books, open source or what resources? Etc. )

Your videos and shorts are helpful! Thanks. Looking forward to advices, experience on going beyond senior to staff and ++

the cat behind is cute haha

nice to have you back! keep making good insightful vids!!

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Wouldn't there just be plugin to allow AI to do things like profiling, A/B testing and other ways we developers "acquire context"? Eventually AI will be fed all information about the company(e.g by scanning emails, reports etc), the customer, industry/market and the macro economy/geopolitics. It will use that to make locally optimal and aligned decisions in a way that no single human can.

Good advice 🎉

In the right team, asking on a public channel first can be better since others might have the same question and multiple coworkers can help. If that does not work, you can indeed go for direct communication 🎉

and devs put themself out of job by developing this, then they will complain, peak stupidty reached

Please do more of the Principal Engineer's Toolkit series! Your videos are so well thought out and clearly communicated. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these

Good advice, I would even go further and say a team should at least have 4 members to work optimally and give room for vacations etc.

Thanks so much Kun! Extremely clear crossing-river example stated

Great insight about specialized tasks and craftsmanship vs entrepreurship! I was thinking about this exact topic - the skills that will remain relevant in the age of GenAI. Thinking strategically and being able to express your ideas clearly will probably become even more important. The latter is also useful in being able to create the right prompts for these models. Finally, managing stakeholders (or people in general) will continue to be relevant. Would love your thoughts on these soft-skills, perhaps in future video, as well!

Great insight Kun , what are the domains and tech stack someone should start exploring for future being a java developer with 2 years of professional experience?

Oh wow you're alive! Thought you would not upload more content. Great video btw! And glad you're back

I can't believe my luck to came across your channel. Keep up the good work!

thanks, this is golden advice

Great video! I'd like some feedback on how should I get started? I am currently in 2nd year of college and somewhat familiar with java (data structures and algorithms) and currently learning web development independently (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JS etc.). I still didn't pick my electives in college. Any guidance on how I should proceed from here? Please specify details. I'd really appreciate it!

A senior engineer doesn't ask how to do something and instead asks why we are doing it that way.

best video ive ever watched

I don't like this video because it puts everything into small boxes where in the real world you are far more expected for adaptability. Senior engineer is someone who has gained experience. I knew people who were titled "Juniors" who surpassed some "Seniors". These are all meaningless titles. The core principals of a good "Senior" engineer are based on their experience and knowledge. - Solving problems skills - their additional experience made them realize they've seen some stuff in the wild, this helps them to mitigate business issues. - Business domain knowledge - one of the necessary things to become a senior, otherwise you are just another programmer with solving skills. [Not much of help in business meetings] - Team player - Long gone the days where you where a keyboard in a basement, you need to learn how to work with people. - Learning, learning and learning. Good engineers don't stop learning.

Just an opinion. (Senior Software Engineer and everyone else opinions are probably have different.) #1. When you get a problem. Your first thinking should be the possibility of solving the problem. Not all problems are solvable. if a problem is unsolvable. Suggest other thing that may have been better. Then just then think of different solutions. #2. The other problem with brainstorming is the lacking of actual brain / idea for that matter. This is why sometime individuals should be proactive, or opinionated or like what they do. And people becomes like that if some person can help them to the right way.

that cat is so standing still I thought it was a statue.

I'm mid and I've worked recently with a Senior Engineer and he clearly lack the ability to influence my decisions. He was so much more experienced than me and he knew I was wrong but as long as I used compelling arguments he let me have my way with no opposition. Since he was right, the project had exactly the complications he said it would have. I always wonder, if he defended his ideas, instead of being quite the project would have been much smoother.