Having lived in Iowa for over a decade, yall wanna be from the south.

But is that even a possibility? I don’t think you get a second as that one would’t be as good.

Between interns and junior engineers, I’d say I am doing about 0.5 to 1 day a week of 1 on 1 work with all of them. Sometimes it’s direct problem solving and other times it’s going over topics they are interested in. The last few weeks have been on development processes and workflows, time management and getting things done, presentations and soft skills. I even helped one work on interviewing.

If I can train them to be amazing at their next job chances are they stick around longer and do great things here.

We solved that with a party line. Most days we have an open meeting we all sit in that makes natural talking easier. We chit chat and bring up work issues as is we were sitting next to one another. It is totally voluntary, some days its just me alone in the call. Other days none of us are even muted.

By posting this to boast, it demonstrates that his IQ is much lower as he is unable to read the room.

I am the team lead and architect for my group. We have green engineers and interns. The other day my team was publically acknowledged as being one of the most productive and well oiled teams because of the detail I put in. On a weekly basis I am doing mentoring activities and 1 on 1s with everyone. And I still find time to be writing specs, design documents, code, and hour of meetings.

It requires very little effort. What I have found is that the vast number of leads and managers just aren’t good at teaching or helping others. It’s not a face to face issue. It’s soft skills, logistics, and actually wanting a good team issue. All I am doing is the opposite of what all my bad managers did.

He could have at least provided us with a discount code to create said Copilot account

We are now at the age with the kids and been burned enough by companies like Nintendo to never again buy into systems that have closed ecosystems. If there are carts then we pick that over digital, and we only do digital if we can back it up.

I have pirated copies of all the games i have bought over my life because it’s honestly bullshit that there are all these issues around software rights. If I am not asking the publishers to do more work then take my money and let m be able to pay the game I paid for.

The cheap refills came with a free printer.

There are a bunch of us who had a more GenX life than our birth year would suggest. The internet wasn’t a source of study and paper writing until college. We were allowed to stay home alone after school far younger than is legal today. In the summer we were kicked out of the house and roamind the town on your bike with no method of contact was normal.

If you saw kids in an 80s movie our lives matched that more than a 90s movie.

the path up in many companies is an upside down pyramid of incompetance. you use to fail your way up but now it is about how much koolaid you drink.

the intern in my story is not white.

we just picked up a new intern this month. they did ok in the interview but it was mostly that their dad works with us that they got a job this summer. this week while we were waiting for a meeting to start one of the other devs asked him about the tools he typicaly uses.

he started talking about these vibe coding IDEs and i had to look them up. WTF! but now it is all making sense. who goes to a 4 year uni getting a cs degree and can’t navigate a terminal? this is going to be a long summer.