You said it right Chris, these tech influencers make videos for the sake of attention and views. It's like this other guy made a video not long ago about CSS margins being bad and you should not use them. A lot of BS content and fake drama, again made for views and attention.
You probably mean Theo with the CSS margins, and while I find his style kinda annoying I think he has a point there. CSS behaviour with margins is insanely complex because browsers insist on staying backwards compatible with all the bad decisions of the past. Then again I'd just use Tailwind instead of CSS directly, I usually don't like dependencies and build processes but CSS is just worse.
His courses are better than most and very practical Have you seen them? I took all of them and found them very valuable and cuts a lot of the bs in most content
I'm a 24 year senior. Unemployed. The salaries offered are 20-40% lower and they want you to know 200-300% more. I have offers but they are all much lower than normal. It's an employer's market.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 24 years as dev. I'm a principal, Refuse to do management. Managing people is the spiral downward. If you care about tech, you care about learning the new shit. Go and Rust are my new shits. I'm 45. I will never manage people again as my primary focus. People worth their salary don't need to be managed. 1:1'S are for the weak. If you are doing 1:1s to get to know your devs, your team sucks.
Yup. Market is very poor right now. So many developers are in the denial stage about it. I think things will improve with time, but there's so much detritus built up in the software industry that needs to get cleared before money gets spent wisely and competent programmers are valued again. Things have to get bad before they become good again. I'm not looking for a job right now, but for years I used to be hounded every day by recruiters calling me and sending me emails. For the last year and a half it's been crickets. I've heard similar from other programmers.
Very few programmers on RUclips today seem to be actual programmers. Maybe they actually do work in the field, I guess, but they seem to only have anything to say about career attainment and hardly anything teaching programming or sharing actual wisdom. In my experience, the more seasoned the programmer is, the more concrete thoughts they'll have to share on a technical level. By that virtue, one might as well not consider these "influencers" to be programmers. There should be far more Chris Hawkes, Jonathan Blows, Web Dev Codys, and Brian Wills, but instead we have an invasion of bros selling hustle culture. When that doesn't work, they'll throw out another "why i quit coding" video for the views. I feel bad for any new programmers right now. Not only is the job market in decline but all the voices floating to the top are providing little to no value. Just get a cofounder and make a startup like it's 2013, bruh! /s
"Coding is all that matters!" Thank you for your words of wizdom over the years, Hawkes! And i think that in this case, you are 100% percent right. Coding has been enough, and "always will be". Hoping for more content from you!
I am at a point where I cannot understand what I am doing as developer anymore. I feel like everyone is just leaning on non-code web development. There are plugins coming out that can just transform figma design into actual code... idk man... Furthermore, designs that previously weren't even looked at, now are top notch with emphasized typography, fonts that in my own opinion are unreadable and color palette that makes no sense but ok, i guess that's where we are at nowadays. I just don-t understand this world. Really thought coders are here to code solutions to real world problems, but I don't know if that's the case anymore. Feel like the only people appreaciated are the designers - art people. If I take a look at portfolios all are similar, probably from javacript academy, just with some twists / changes, but everybody talks about themselves as they are so good designers. like I said, I don't understand anymore.
Chris, thank you for the video. Aaron Jack is a cool guy and tries to do his best to help. He lives in Ukraine last I checked. I've found both of your content to be useful. I really like both of you and hope we can all be friends sometime!
ChatGPT = glorified autocomplete (looks ahead a few sentences or paragraphs, instead of just letters) -- like a microwave oven instead of oven burners, you can save time but still gotta know how to use the tool or it will blow up in your gface!
I took his courses on scraping and Shopify and react and honestly I found it quit valuable and useful I'm not paid to say this and have been a developer for over 20 years. I found his takes to be useful and his content to be above average quality Just my two cents
"Coding is all that matters." Yes, basically. You can bluff into getting an interview, but once you get the coding interview, that's where you will sink or swim.
I always thought he was someone that took a coding course and went straight into marketing. His knowledge of coding always seemed shallow. I also noticed that he has the appearance of an addict, very pale, frail(especially after his channel took off), thinning hair that isnt MPB, and i can tell hes fighting to hide teeth grinding
Hey Chris, it's been awhile, yeah I kind of agree he's a marketer than a coder. Tbh it just feels like a another "techlead" channel that ppl who knowly subscribe to.
Hey man, you look pretty tired and burned out 😥 I'm sorry for offering unsolicited advice, but maybe consider working a bit less and do more physical activity?
AI is doing really good, so there is future for that, but more importantly system design is also required these days. The market is not good for new programmers but for us experienced programmers the market is still very very good.
I think "Coding" is not enough, and never have been. You should be a problem solver. Coding is a part of that for decades now, but if you only know how to code some algorithms, that could not be enough.
There is truth to what he is saying in the video. If you jump out of the framework of thinking working as a software dev in the corporate world is the only way to use your coding skills, what he says makes a lot of sense. If you want to criticize, try to be more specific and respond to what exactly he said that you disagree with instead of just attacking his character and playing the senior dev card. All I'm seeing is rambling and personal attacks. Just my 2 cents
He sounds like more of a marketer than an engineer.
He's both so I don't understand the hate
You said it right Chris, these tech influencers make videos for the sake of attention and views.
It's like this other guy made a video not long ago about CSS margins being bad and you should not use them.
A lot of BS content and fake drama, again made for views and attention.
they're mostly grifters, yeah
You probably mean Theo with the CSS margins, and while I find his style kinda annoying I think he has a point there. CSS behaviour with margins is insanely complex because browsers insist on staying backwards compatible with all the bad decisions of the past.
Then again I'd just use Tailwind instead of CSS directly, I usually don't like dependencies and build processes but CSS is just worse.
His courses are better than most and very practical
Have you seen them? I took all of them and found them very valuable and cuts a lot of the bs in most content
The RUclips way. Thanks google!
I'm a 24 year senior. Unemployed. The salaries offered are 20-40% lower and they want you to know 200-300% more. I have offers but they are all much lower than normal. It's an employer's market.
Watch the last two livestreams from codingphase he talked exactly about this.
24 years as a senior dev or a 24 year old senior dev?
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 24 years as dev. I'm a principal, Refuse to do management. Managing people is the spiral downward. If you care about tech, you care about learning the new shit. Go and Rust are my new shits. I'm 45. I will never manage people again as my primary focus. People worth their salary don't need to be managed. 1:1'S are for the weak.
If you are doing 1:1s to get to know your devs, your team sucks.
Yup. Market is very poor right now. So many developers are in the denial stage about it. I think things will improve with time, but there's so much detritus built up in the software industry that needs to get cleared before money gets spent wisely and competent programmers are valued again. Things have to get bad before they become good again. I'm not looking for a job right now, but for years I used to be hounded every day by recruiters calling me and sending me emails. For the last year and a half it's been crickets. I've heard similar from other programmers.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 24 years experience since 1999.
Very few programmers on RUclips today seem to be actual programmers. Maybe they actually do work in the field, I guess, but they seem to only have anything to say about career attainment and hardly anything teaching programming or sharing actual wisdom. In my experience, the more seasoned the programmer is, the more concrete thoughts they'll have to share on a technical level. By that virtue, one might as well not consider these "influencers" to be programmers. There should be far more Chris Hawkes, Jonathan Blows, Web Dev Codys, and Brian Wills, but instead we have an invasion of bros selling hustle culture. When that doesn't work, they'll throw out another "why i quit coding" video for the views. I feel bad for any new programmers right now. Not only is the job market in decline but all the voices floating to the top are providing little to no value. Just get a cofounder and make a startup like it's 2013, bruh! /s
Lol. I agree with you. Everyone these days is an expert in coding and AI. The industry is becoming a joke.
Don't forget Hussein Nasser
Pretty much all of the popular ones, aren’t.
"Coding is all that matters!"
Thank you for your words of wizdom over the
years, Hawkes! And i think that in this case, you are 100% percent right.
Coding has been enough, and "always will be".
Hoping for more content from you!
Thank you, I’m coming back
Yeah, there is no 5-year developer who's a genuine senior. No way.
That exactly what I was telling some guy the other day. 5 year "senior" is a joke
I am at a point where I cannot understand what I am doing as developer anymore. I feel like everyone is just leaning on non-code web development. There are plugins coming out that can just transform figma design into actual code... idk man... Furthermore, designs that previously weren't even looked at, now are top notch with emphasized typography, fonts that in my own opinion are unreadable and color palette that makes no sense but ok, i guess that's where we are at nowadays. I just don-t understand this world.
Really thought coders are here to code solutions to real world problems, but I don't know if that's the case anymore. Feel like the only people appreaciated are the designers - art people.
If I take a look at portfolios all are similar, probably from javacript academy, just with some twists / changes, but everybody talks about themselves as they are so good designers. like I said, I don't understand anymore.
Yeah, most design is just whatever everyone else is doing.
You're spot on; teams need individuals that can look at the new tech, take what they need from it, and add to their toolkit where relevant.
Chris, thank you for the video. Aaron Jack is a cool guy and tries to do his best to help. He lives in Ukraine last I checked. I've found both of your content to be useful. I really like both of you and hope we can all be friends sometime!
Thanks for the info!
Good to see you Chris and great advice as always! Yes ChatGPT will change the landscape but not remove all Engineers from the equation.
GPT is a tool like Google and IDE autocompletion. It'll be important to know how to use it but it's still useless by itself.
ChatGPT = glorified autocomplete (looks ahead a few sentences or paragraphs, instead of just letters) -- like a microwave oven instead of oven burners, you can save time but still gotta know how to use the tool or it will blow up in your gface!
I took his courses on scraping and Shopify and react and honestly I found it quit valuable and useful
I'm not paid to say this and have been a developer for over 20 years. I found his takes to be useful and his content to be above average quality
Just my two cents
Thanks for sharing
Ironically enough, excessive swiping on dating apps pushes down in the algorithm
Thank you for pointing this out! That video of his really didn't sit right with me.
Chad Chris Hawkes destroys Virgin Aaron Jack with FACTS and LOGIC.
I watch lot of yt, thank god there are gems like yours channel.
Thank you, I’m coming back
This based and real, would say this is actually advice as a former staff engineer
"Coding is all that matters." Yes, basically. You can bluff into getting an interview, but once you get the coding interview, that's where you will sink or swim.
What kind of GitHub would you want?
Not one that makes spam clicks on a dating website. That is weak as hell.
@@realchrishawkes idk who u r, just discovered u but "weak as hell" coming from u is hilarious.. def gonna watch ur stuff.
can you make a video on what we would need in terms of github profile, etc, to get a job? i think this would help a lot of people. thanks.
Yeah, I can do that
Keep going Chris!! Love your take!
Thanks! Will do!
Chris throwing shade!!
Throwing facts
Nice to see you again
Keep preaching bro.
Will do
I also was really put off by the GitHub profile flex.. like, okay? Seemed just immature and irrelevant really.
It’s probably just content he does. Seems to be working for him.
5 yrs exp... and Senior Dev... Hahah, so true Chris.
Laughing my a$$ off watching this 😂
I'm unsure why you quit mate, but RUclips requires more straight talking people like you to be on it
I’m coming back
I always thought he was someone that took a coding course and went straight into marketing. His knowledge of coding always seemed shallow. I also noticed that he has the appearance of an addict, very pale, frail(especially after his channel took off), thinning hair that isnt MPB, and i can tell hes fighting to hide teeth grinding
Hopefully not, being addicted to drugs or alcohol is hell.
Hey Chris, it's been awhile, yeah I kind of agree he's a marketer than a coder. Tbh it just feels like a another "techlead" channel that ppl who knowly subscribe to.
Hey man, you look pretty tired and burned out 😥
I'm sorry for offering unsolicited advice, but maybe consider working a bit less and do more physical activity?
I’m actually not, just getting older I guess. I have 2 kids, I don’t rest.
AI is doing really good, so there is future for that, but more importantly system design is also required these days. The market is not good for new programmers but for us experienced programmers the market is still very very good.
I haven’t looked in a long time now, I’m glad to hear that though.
Sup Chris, how you doin. I enjoyed your talk, take care.
Thanks, you too!
I think "Coding" is not enough, and never have been. You should be a problem solver. Coding is a part of that for decades now, but if you only know how to code some algorithms, that could not be enough.
Was a legitimate now nobody channels seem to be incinerated before people get to see them for nothing I have done but TRUTH
I’m not following?
Bro if you dropped a little bit of weight(not that you have to or anything) you would look exactly like that bay area rapper G-Eazy.
Nice, I should have been a rapper.
5 years developers are joke
Lol
There is truth to what he is saying in the video. If you jump out of the framework of thinking working as a software dev in the corporate world is the only way to use your coding skills, what he says makes a lot of sense. If you want to criticize, try to be more specific and respond to what exactly he said that you disagree with instead of just attacking his character and playing the senior dev card. All I'm seeing is rambling and personal attacks. Just my 2 cents
I hear you.