Dmitrii Kovanikov
@ChShersh
Dysfunctional Programming account #1#. Senior SWE. I still write C++ for money. ex-Haskell, ex-OCaml. All opinions are my own.
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Somewhere in the world there’s probably an entire team of 6 devs, working full time on a project that’s just one Claude Code prompt
I don't understand how people use VS Code for programming.
The editing window is so small.
Are you supposed to use only AI now?
It’s funny to see people in replies jumping to conclusions from this post without having any extra context
How long it took me to find each SWE job:
2014: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (nepotism)
2015: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 4 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (friend is a CEO)
2018: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2019: 1 job applied, 5 interviews, 1 week
2021: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (invited)
2022: 7 jobs applied, 16 interviews, 3 months
2026: 167 jobs applied, 54 interviews, 1 year 4 months
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How long it took me to find each SWE job:
2014: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (nepotism)
2015: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 4 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (friend is a CEO)
2018: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2019: 1 job applied, 5 interviews, 1 week
2021: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (invited)
2022: 7 jobs applied, 16 interviews, 3 months
2026: 167 jobs applied, 54 interviews, 1 year 4 months
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One day you wake up and suddenly we have flying cars now
I find it disturbing how “The Matrix”, released 27 years ago, coined multiple terms like “matrix” (basis of AI operations), “agents” (autonomous entities), and sandboxes heroes were trying to escape.
We already live in the matrix that just reinvents itself.
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I’m happy to work at a place where nanosecond-level performance improvements are considered meaningful.
I had a similar reaction. Everyone should applaud performance improvements, but gauge against the “speed of light”, not just a sloppy competitor. If you are measuring in seconds, you may have already anchored yourself incorrectly.
Structure the UI so you can put locally cached media up just a few vblanks after the process launches.
Structure the server so it can return everything necessary for the dynamic UI in one single query that was kicked off in parallel with the Gfx API initialization, branching to a modern transport protocol for large media files.
You should be able to double click on the launcher and have it responsive before your muscle memory can slam the pointer to a location to click on.
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When you ask Claude to do your entire work, let it run for 2 hours, reread the full plan before approving it, and find a crucial error on line 1654
I’ve been using exactly the same commute to work for so long, I started recognising the same people.
I’m still recovering from the realisation that 90% of my programming style is defined by having deep trust issues
I never understood the concept of learning by reading someone else’s code.
All code I’ve seen was either useless, or boring, or written by people dumber than me.
But for the first time in my life I’ve seen such beautiful C++ code, and it’s like a treasure trove of learning.
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I’m telling people “I made a research on subject X” when all I did is asking ChatGPT one question about it
Corporate work has almost destroyed my soul.
I’m so glad I escaped it.
I didn’t even realise how depressed I was.
You lowkey gotta be liked at work if you work in corporate. All that coming in quiet and just doing your work make people weird for some reason
I don’t support p(doom).
I was always more of a p(quake) fan.
At my university we had a professor who seemed to know every subject. It was extremely hard to pass his exams.
I just realised that 16 years later I use his exact approach to detect whether AI is bullshitting me.
I simply ask AI one question.
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This video is about SWE interviews btw
Implicit CSV header makes the files automatically catenable.
They are the simplest database that’s also a Monoid.
I noticed that it became harder for me to watch long-form content. I can't watch a movie in one go. I can't even watch a single TV series episode. Same with work: I can't do hour-long coding sessions anymore.
I was afraid my attention span is being destroyed.
Turns out, most modern movies are just shit.
I watched 1k+ movies and 10k+ TV series episodes. You can no longer surprise me with your "original" work. I've seen it all. The colour is being sucked out of this world, and social media has sucked out all the creativity from your content.
Your movies are boring.
Your worlds are not immersive.
Your characters are not believable. And honestly, not really complex.
Same with work. I thought I lost my spark due to my burnout. But somehow I had an idea for a cool project and I've been working on it non-stop for hours and lost track of my time. I thought I lost this ability! Turns out, I was simply doing boring work.
If you feel like your attention span is decreasing, maybe try doing something really interesting.
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People need to understand this: these billionaire tech bros teach their children Montessori and Waldorf methods which focuses on teaching kids the ability to focus for long periods, think critically, and be creative, while they push attention-destroying short form videos and AI onto the masses and pretend it’s for the good of humanity.
They understand that your ability to focus and be creative is the main factor of success in the future, yet design apps that degrade those crucial life skills. The average person must be aware of this and resist this at all costs.
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> 1M+ cloud agents
If we’re getting closer to creating consciousness, might as well start calling cloud agents “angels”
We launched 1M+ cloud agents. Now we’re sharing how you can build them for your company.
We spent a year battle-testing flexible components for diverse use cases and security needs.
Unreal Agent is one of those components. Today, we’re discussing the broader stack 🧵:
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@leostera And also let’s encode this as XML schema on backend.
So it’s much easier to review this on GitHub.
