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Back in February, a friend asked me to join his hackathon team. My first reaction wasn't excitement. It was: "Can I even contribute anything?" I remember repeatedly telling him not to add dead weight to the team and to find someone better. He kept insisting that it didn't matter and that I should just join. The funny thing is, I still don't think I've done anything extraordinary since then. No big startup. No crazy achievement. No overnight success story. Mostly just hundreds of hours of learning, building random things, breaking them, fixing them, and realizing how much I still don't know. But today I caught myself doing something weird. I'm the one thinking about who to bring into a team. And for the first time, I don't immediately feel like I'd be dead weight. Not because I know everything now. Just because I've reached the point where I can look at a problem and genuinely believe that, given enough time, I'll figure out how to contribute. It's a small shift, but it feels important. A few months ago I was wondering if I belonged on a team at all. Today I'm wondering who should be on mine. 👀

I've been doing frontend development for a little over a year. Mostly personal projects, a few freelance jobs for friends, nothing huge. Recently someone reached out through a mutual contact and asked if I could build a website for their business. At first I assumed it would be a simple brochure site, but after our call it sounds like they want something a bit more custom. The site itself doesn't sound overly complicated, but they have a bunch of specific requirements that don't really fit into an off-the-shelf template. The deadline is around two weeks. Part of me thinks this is exactly the kind of project I need if I want to improve and start taking on more freelance work. The other part of me is looking at the timeline and thinking there's a good chance I'm being way too optimistic. For those of you who freelance or run your own projects, how do you figure out whether a client request is genuinely manageable or whether you're setting yourself up for a stressful couple of weeks? Trying to work out if I'm overthinking this or if my instincts are trying to warn me about something. submitted by /u/avz008 [link] [留言]

I'm a Full Stack dev. At my current job, until recently, I've being stuck doing only front end work. This is due to coworkers (referred to as C:A & C:B) hording all the back end work. They have stated that they don't know the front end. Yet they use A.I. to generate front end code they don't understand. Tech Lead doesn't care as long as it works. To be clear, this is not an anti-A.I. post. I see it as a tool and use it myself. Whatever it generates, I go through and understand how it works and if it is the best way to do it. When I say "Done Dirty", I mean A.I. is being used by people to do front end work that they wouldn't be capable of otherwise. Examples of what I have experienced. I was working on an assignment with Coworker C:A. I was on the front end work and they on the back. C:A branched off my Git branch, used A.I. to finish my part and theirs. They presented it to the boss (a non-technical director) as their work alone. I was working on an assignment with both C:A and C:B and we got down the wire on it. It was the day before delivery and I was trying to wire up the U.I. for both their back ends. I was running behind. C:B decided to use A.I. to wire theirs up and told everyone they got it done. The next day I was looking over everything and realized it wasn't wired up. It was displaying the embedded data I put in for testing. I had to inform the Tech Lead and it did not go well for C:B. My question is are front end devs getting the "short end of the stick" because A.I. can generate U.I. elements and do interface work for people who don't understand anything about it. Is anyone else experiencing something similar? Not looking for anti-A.I talk. I really want to know if people who specialize in this work are being directly undercut by A.I. usage. TLDR: Are devs using A.I. to generate front end code they don't understand undercutting those that specialize in it? submitted by /u/wtfbigman24x7 [link] [留言]

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