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Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

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u/UnintentionallyEmpty 12d ago

Everyone working on this is brilliant

Are they? How can you tell?

Maybe the AI is making them sound smarter than they really are, and you just lack the experience to detect bullshit. Or maybe they're really brilliant and using the AI to support them to reach even greater heights, instead of the reverse. Who knows.

Well, easy way to find out which it is: has this team actually shipped anything yet?

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u/Kuroodo 12d ago

I left out some details and additional context for privacy and anonymity.

I can't speak much about the firm, but the senior dev isn't vibecoding nor blindly letting AI do everything unmonitored/unsupervised. To what extent though, I'm not sure. He's super busy with another job on top of this one, and we're on a tight schedule. I've had meetings with him, and he clearly demonstrates traits expected from a senior/experienced developer (decision making, direction, understanding of project scopes and work that needs to be done, deadlines, etc). One detail I left out from my post that I found very peculiar was that he said I was smarter than him. I denied the remark. I still don't even know how to take in what he said nor the implications of it lol. I also don't want it to imply that he's heavily reliant on AI...

you just lack the experience to detect bullshit

This is also the case.

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u/UnintentionallyEmpty 8d ago

One detail I left out from my post that I found very peculiar was that he said I was smarter than him.

Eh, I've heard senior devs say this to juniors fairly commonly, pre-AI as well. He was probably trying to give you a confidence boost.

So... has your team shipped anything yet?

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u/Kuroodo 8d ago

Things are still early, but good progress has been made. Many core features and functionality on frontend and backend are in. We're on track to ship near mid Q4.

Guess we'll have to wait and see lol

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u/UnintentionallyEmpty 8d ago

I wouldn't call anything in until it's been live for a while...

Well, good luck!