A chemical engineer ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ who switched his career into software engineer ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

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Joined March 2023
Hello everyone, I will start soon a journey here sharing what I do throughout the day. I will be almost posting everyday to document my journey, and encourage myself and others to continue learning and building. Stay tuned my friends!
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If juniors ship with agents, what actually happens to hiring? A) Hire fewer juniors B) Hire more, cheaper leverage C) Seniors only, juniors dead D) Same headcount, new bar
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Where should coding agents live in a real workflow? A) Write most of the code B) Draft, humans own merge C) IDE copilot only D) Review/tests, not impl
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How much production code should agents write on your team? A) Almost none B) Assist, I still type C) Most of every PR D) All of it, I merge
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Using agents for work you could write yourself is... A) Selling out the craft B) Fine for grunt work C) The correct default D) Required to stay good
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A PM's coding agent says the feature is easy. Your call? A) Trust the AI quote B) Ask what can break C) Kill the estimate D) Let the PM ship it
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If agents eat the easy work, how do juniors still become seniors? A) Give them hard tickets B) Drive agents, own it C) Review agent output D) Stop hiring juniors
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Agent opened the PR. Does a human still have to read the diff? A) Every line, always B) Skim if tests pass C) Let another agent D) Only high-risk paths
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Will AI coding tools make junior engineers more or less hireable in 2 years? A) Much more hireable B) Slightly more C) Slightly less D) Basically unhireable
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Does vibe coding belong in production systems? A) Yes, ship it B) Prototypes only C) Never for prod D) Only with seniors
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If you had to pick one daily driver for agentic coding this month, which wins? A) Claude Code CLI B) Cursor agent C) Codex in IDE D) None, I write it
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if we aren't connected and you ship, drop a hi. what's the build?
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What's the real bottleneck in engineering hiring right now? A) Too few juniors B) Seniors won't mentor C) AI inflated resumes D) Interview process
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For production work, how far should you trust a coding agent before a human reviews the PR? A) Ship if tests pass B) Review diffs only C) Full human rewrite D) Never agent-authored
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If agents eat the grunt work, how do juniors still become seniors? A) They still write code B) They review agents C) They own prod/oncall D) The pipeline is dead
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Your default with a coding agent: keep hands on the wheel, or send it unsupervised? A) Steer every change B) Steer UI, delegate BE C) Delegate with tests D) Fire and forget
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Anthropic says Claude writes ~90% of Claude Code. Where should your bar be? A) Agents write most B) Half, I write core C) Agents assist only D) I still write it
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Is using Claude Code in the terminal still a real advantage, or mostly theater? A) CLI is strictly better B) CLI for automation C) Desktop does the job D) Desktop is better
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Human review of agent PRs: required gate, or leftover ritual? A) Required on every PR B) Risk-based only C) Author + CI enough D) AI review is enough
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On real teams, AI is squeezing which layer hardest? A) Juniors / new grads B) Ticket-closing mids C) Staff without agents D) Nobody, hiring is up
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Resume's best project was Claude-coded. You: A) Pass immediately B) Grill ownership hard C) Treat it as normal D) Prefer they used AI
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