Hey Lane! I'm currently taking your courses on boot dev. I'm 21 with a good salary as a manager in a restaurant, but I also want to pursue software engineering or some problem solving/ system designing career in the future; however, with advancements in technology like Devin coming into light, it's hard to maintain that drive. I'm a really self-driven person so usually that's not an issue at all, but it is hard when every time I load up a course, I just start reading stuff online about how coding skills will be obsolete in the near future. An advice?
I know I'm not Lane, but I don't really know how far in your journey you are in. But you sound like you want to build something and make solutions. As long as you're really trying to go deep in the tools you are trying to learn, be it a programming language, a frontend library, a text editor, or core utilities, we will still need people who know how to use their tools to build things. The thing about Devin is that it is just another tool for a software engineer to use, it's never going to be able to replace the person. I don't think the primary users of Devin are people who are in need of software engineers because if a person doesn't really know how to use the tools that we use, they won't really be able to do everything on their own.
@@zyr4c31 Thank you for this insight, I do really like the idea of building and designing architectures for software, as long as I can problem solve and figure out logical components then that is what is really fulfilling to me. As of my journey, I started trying to code for unreal engine to make fan games, but ended up loving the coding aspect to it and that's really where I fell in love with coding, where I fell in love with problem solving. I'm 12 weeks into my courses on boot dev, currently finishing up algos and about to move on to data structures. I enjoy learning it regardless of if I land a job in it so that's a plus LOL. I do think that the tech market will rise again eventually, just trying to keep the motivation but talking to people about it like this really helps.
So, something to throw out there. We use Gitlab. You can cache stuff like python or go dependencies ect. But what you should be doing instead is building a base docker image with everything you need, and then using that base image for all your go containers instead of a completely raw image every time.
Hey Lane! I'm currently taking your courses on boot dev. I'm 21 with a good salary as a manager in a restaurant, but I also want to pursue software engineering or some problem solving/ system designing career in the future; however, with advancements in technology like Devin coming into light, it's hard to maintain that drive. I'm a really self-driven person so usually that's not an issue at all, but it is hard when every time I load up a course, I just start reading stuff online about how coding skills will be obsolete in the near future. An advice?
I know I'm not Lane, but I don't really know how far in your journey you are in. But you sound like you want to build something and make solutions. As long as you're really trying to go deep in the tools you are trying to learn, be it a programming language, a frontend library, a text editor, or core utilities, we will still need people who know how to use their tools to build things.
The thing about Devin is that it is just another tool for a software engineer to use, it's never going to be able to replace the person. I don't think the primary users of Devin are people who are in need of software engineers because if a person doesn't really know how to use the tools that we use, they won't really be able to do everything on their own.
@@zyr4c31 Thank you for this insight, I do really like the idea of building and designing architectures for software, as long as I can problem solve and figure out logical components then that is what is really fulfilling to me. As of my journey, I started trying to code for unreal engine to make fan games, but ended up loving the coding aspect to it and that's really where I fell in love with coding, where I fell in love with problem solving. I'm 12 weeks into my courses on boot dev, currently finishing up algos and about to move on to data structures. I enjoy learning it regardless of if I land a job in it so that's a plus LOL. I do think that the tech market will rise again eventually, just trying to keep the motivation but talking to people about it like this really helps.
So, something to throw out there. We use Gitlab. You can cache stuff like python or go dependencies ect. But what you should be doing instead is building a base docker image with everything you need, and then using that base image for all your go containers instead of a completely raw image every time.
Have this issue where I work.
Its a Go monorepo, but our CI/CD is extremely wasteful. It takes some services ~10minutes to run all tests and linters.